labored

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Initially intriguing, the jumbled chronology eventually proves to be largely decorative until a disappointing late-reel twist explains why the labored device was deployed in the first place.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

They appeared to agree on Meta’s culpability by Friday, but labored through Tuesday to hash out a decision for Google, delivering their verdict just after 10 a.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

For 15 years, Carter labored in the Valley of the Kings on the banks of the Nile opposite modern-day Luxor, seeking a pharaoh’s tomb that hadn’t been robbed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Between 10,000 and 12,000 Chinese workers labored on the transcontinental Central Pacific Railroad—the largest corporate wage-labor force in 19th-century America.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Doli’s shaggy pony labored through the trees; the bard had ridden his own mount into a lather.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander