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A harsh lockdown, one of the strictest in the world, created a humanitarian crisis of its own, pushing millions of migrant workers to take arduous journeys back home on foot.

From Quartz

When changes concern the matter of how we mark off our identities, though, any alteration would be extremely arduous and require more than education.

Smith played in his first game since his devastating injury, completing an arduous comeback and withstanding a brutal sack from Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald.

First, we didn’t try to stand up an entirely new educational program on our own, which almost certainly would be a long, arduous process that may not meet the differing needs of academic institutions around the world.

From Fortune

After seventeen surgeries, a life-threatening infection, a lost season and months of arduous rehab, Smith returned to the field in October.

It's slow and arduous and takes great concentration under the best of circumstances.

Bailey, who is also dating the director, said working on a Leigh production was incredibly arduous.

Even more striking are the courteous and collegial manners displayed, even during the arduous filibuster in the Senate.

Once the budget has been creatively handled, a director still faces the arduous task of casting.

The road to the Olympics is already long and arduous enough.

Indeed, 'we have laid upon him various arduous tasks touching the state of the country, and especially its tranquillity.'

But Samuel Adams, who thought "nothing should be despaired of," took upon himself the performance of this arduous task.

Sir Edward Bruce, after an arduous struggle, had taken a firm grip of Galloway by the end of 1308.

Nature seems still to wish to keep the young and blushing girl apart from that connection which entails grave and arduous duties.

Though Weston was more or less accustomed to the work, he found the first few hours sufficiently arduous.

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On this page you'll find 83 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to arduous, such as: backbreaking, burdensome, exhausting, formidable, grueling, and laborious.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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