onerously
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They took a toll, onerously so, like an undertow at the ocean shoreline that yanks you down into the muddy sand underfoot, and my debt more than quadrupled.
From Salon ● May 11, 2025
Most onerously, the pill had to be given in person in an approved clinical setting—even though a second drug used to complete the abortion, misoprostol, could be taken at home.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 2, 2022
Yet crop insurance rates remained onerously high, the younger Enriquez said, so the farm went without this year.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
Race or racism plays into the way that certain policies are shaped, and bureaucratic requirements for getting help can be arcane and onerously cumulative.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 2, 2018
She used to read to the blind, and, more onerously, to the deaf.
From Georgina's Reasons by Henry James
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