Thesaurus / laborious
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Let’s start with the more laborious approach, which broke down into cases depending on how many of the other nine people in the room were also in the top decile.
CAN YOU CATCH THE CRICKET?ZACH WISSNER-GROSSAUGUST 20, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTQuilting—which is inherently more laborious because of the thickness of the fabric—is made easier with an extended table, high-speed straight-stitch capability, and major power.
THE BEST SEWING MACHINE: A STITCH IN TIME FOR EVERY SKILL LEVELIRENA COLLAKUJULY 28, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEThe laborious forms and appeals process aren’t the only impediments.
HOW COVID-19 LONG HAULERS COULD CHANGE THE U.S. DISABILITY BENEFITS SYSTEMABIGAIL ABRAMSJULY 20, 2021TIMEIt relies on laborious experimental techniques that can take months or even years.
PROTEIN FOLDING AI IS MAKING A ‘ONCE IN A GENERATION’ ADVANCE IN BIOLOGYSHELLY FANJULY 20, 2021SINGULARITY HUB Getting them to sound any more natural was a laborious manual task.
AI VOICE ACTORS SOUND MORE HUMAN THAN EVER—AND THEY’RE READY TO HIREKAREN HAOJULY 9, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWIndeed, most folded due to lack of funding and the laborious nature of self-publication methods in that era.
NEWSLETTERS MAY THREATEN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA, BUT THEY ALSO BUILD COMMUNITIESSARAH OVINKJULY 8, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThis can be a laborious process, so there’s no shame in hiring a professional.
IT’S TIME TO RIP UP YOUR LAWN AND REPLACE IT WITH SOMETHING YOU WON’T NEED TO MOWJOHN KENNEDYJUNE 27, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEWhat sets the Kardashians apart from overnight TikTok stars is that their ascent to fame was intentional, laborious, and often desperate.
‘KEEPING UP WITH THE KARDASHIANS’ ENDS NOT WITH A BANG BUT A WHIMPERJORDAN JULIANJUNE 11, 2021THE DAILY BEASTIn fact, it’s the laborious effort to transform that narrative into a simultaneous “How Cruella Was Born” yarn that’s responsible for the film’s most baffling stretches.
COUNTERPOINT: DISNEY’S GIRLBOSS ‘CRUELLA’ ACTUALLY RULESKEVIN FALLONMAY 28, 2021THE DAILY BEASTOften this involved tapping the powerful but laborious machinery of K-theory.
MATHEMATICIAN DISPROVES 80-YEAR-OLD ALGEBRA CONJECTUREERICA KLARREICHAPRIL 12, 2021QUANTA MAGAZINEWORDS RELATED TO LABORIOUS
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