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labored

[ley-berd] / ˈleɪ bərd /


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The Eastern District of California said the time it spent reviewing her alleged misconduct was a “waste of limited time and judicial resources in a district that has labored under a longstanding caseload crisis.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

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

Lamarck labored professionally under the modest title of professor of insects and worms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Mami stood there watching, as I picked up the pencil, carefully tore a sheet from my notebook, and, in labored script, wrote, “Dear Tata, I hope when you receive this letter...”

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago




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