belabor

Example Sentences

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The reason to belabor this point is that precision matters.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025

“I think we came together as a region and realized that the investment wasn’t producing the results that we had hoped collectively, and we didn’t belabor the point.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2024

Smith doesn’t belabor who these people are, but it’s easy to tell they were rich and famous and a little bit scandalous.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023

Scholars studying the conspiracy theories these people fall for sometimes belabor the issue of whether they really "believe" such crackpot notions.

From Salon • May 20, 2023

Yea, & the Rest, who will line up Tomorrow & belabor my Quill, tho’ they hear this Missive is already sent.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson