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laborious

[luh-bawr-ee-uhs] / ləˈbɔr i əs /




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Those companies previously needed licenses approved by the Commerce Department to export chips needed to run AI models, a laborious process that can take months and is frequently delayed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Exhausting, laborious, oppressive, but three points and hope.

From BBC Jun. 14, 2026

I do fear that if you start selling your friends’ goods without their help, the sale will begin to feel more laborious than fun.

From MarketWatch May 28, 2026

“While we have tried to simplify the underlying concepts behind the Ontology model, building and implementing an Ontology in a large enterprise is a laborious process,” the analysts say.

From Barron's Mar. 20, 2026

But it was laborious work, and once he’d listed all the ones he could recognize and left gaps for the rest, he and Asta both felt they’d spent enough time with it.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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