tedious
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Too much of the program is made up of tedious movies by beloved Cannes veterans — essentially affirmative action for auteurs.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
The ordeal eventually led Ms. Müller to emigrate to West Berlin in 1987, a bureaucratic torment that she describes here in deliberately tedious detail, to mirror the experience.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
The FDA’s road to regulating compounding pharmacies — and by extension the peptides they seek to dispense — has been long and tedious.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026
One fluorescent dancing man is a party, but a room full of them grows tedious.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
The cyclotron’s celebrity as a technological phenomenon fed on itself, fueling its inventor’s preference for engineering and salesmanship over the tedious drudgery of hard science.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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