be tedious
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His splendid book is devoted to a topic—the health benefits derived from exposure to high temperatures—that could be tedious in the wrong hands.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
“Scrubs” recognizes that most of a doctor’s hero moments can be tedious, as J.D. observes while languishing on hold with an insurance company.
From Salon • Feb. 26, 2026
“This will be tedious work, make lots of enemies & compensation is zero,” he wrote on X.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2024
In practice, however, this is of little use -- after all, it would be tedious to repeatedly irradiate the wall with intense UV light in order to drive the self-cleaning process.
From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2024
Concerning 291 this journey we read very many other predictions in the prophets, which it would be tedious to recall.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin