effortful
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“The brain is plastic and flexible, and if you put the hours in, it can really take effortful, hard things, and make them easy and less attentionally demanding,” Cox said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Instead of becoming more automatic or habit-driven, the rats showed more deliberate and effortful decision-making.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2026
Either they’re not actually funny, or they get too in their head about being perceived as funny as they think they are, and the result is a guest-host turn that feels too effortful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2024
In this way, through sustained and effortful looking, we are finally rewarded with intimate visions of metallic door plates and keys, adorned with colorful ribbons and arrayed against a backdrop of gilded emergency blankets.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
She smiled at him as they hauled themselves up it—a brief flash of teeth, effortful but gallant—and tried to wring the water from her clothes.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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