labored

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Another concerned a sort of command center where workers labored “to make the internet as bad as we can possibly get it.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

Araceli Molar de Barrios labored in the fields for nearly 30 years after arriving in the U.S. in 1995, two years after Chavez’s death.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

The connection between Douglass’s fame, Assing’s death and the chemical composition of a poison might be somewhat labored, but Ms. Popova sells it as a portrait of cosmic interconnectedness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Google for years labored to catch up in the AI race.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

At once they came, waves of them, one after another, and they labored separating and dividing, until what had been a confused mass lay all ordered, every seed with its kind.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton