taxing

Example Sentences

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Running AI on your computer can be taxing but also powerful.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

Part of this is in the rich tradition of European reporters sojourning in the United States who find casual grotesques about Americans far more lucrative and less taxing than actually trying to meet the natives.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2026

The subject matter was emotionally taxing for some, but at the time, Dela Cruz said, “it was something that happened.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

"Holidays are for relaxing, not taxing," the groups wrote in a letter to Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

This time I knew exactly what was out there—a lot of long, taxing miles, steep rocky mountains, hard shelter floors, hot days without showers, unsatisfying meals cooked on a temperamental stove.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson