laborious
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Cooking a full-fledged meal from scratch seems too laborious.
From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026
Edwards is eventually acquitted, but the trial becomes so laborious that it loses its antic charm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 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
This is more laborious, of course, but also more likely to fetch you that bigger paycheck.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026
Many of the animals believed him.Their lives now, they reasoned, were hungry and laborious; was it not right and just that a better world should exist somewhere else?
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
Vocabulary lists containing laborious
Excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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