- present participle of exhaust.
exhausting
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Situation: By that time, Snell is at 99 pitches, two shy of his season high, after the exhausting battles with Vaughn and Bauers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
She said she wanted to use her voice to support parents navigating loss because "their capacity just deteriorates", because it is "exhausting and distressing to be reliving things and having to find a fight".
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
That level of effort does not require an exhausting workout.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
So, too, are the movies that depict journalism’s procedures and how arduous and exhausting they are.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
But a friend like that, he suspected, could also be exhausting.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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