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labored

[ley-berd] / ˈleɪ bərd /


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In many years on dairy farms, the worker often labored for 10 hours with no breaks.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

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

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

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

In the moment it took her to take another labored breath, she fell backward in time and remembered another day, another hut.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray




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