tedious
Example Sentences
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For some reason, polishing the furniture and the ceramics in the store didn’t feel as tedious as doing housework.
From Literature
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His splendid book is devoted to a topic—the health benefits derived from exposure to high temperatures—that could be tedious in the wrong hands.
Among the many tedious features of market panics is the well-known cognitive error of catastrophizing.
From MarketWatch
Peer review is a process in which other researchers evaluate the papers for accuracy and likely replicability, but it can be a tedious process.
From Salon
A lawyer by training, he seems to function primarily by breaking any challenge into small pieces to be noodled over at tedious length one by one.
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