laborious
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Exhausting, laborious, oppressive, but three points and hope.
From BBC • Jun. 14, 2026
Cooking a full-fledged meal from scratch seems too laborious.
From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026
I do fear that if you start selling your friends’ goods without their help, the sale will begin to feel more laborious than fun.
From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026
Edwards is eventually acquitted, but the trial becomes so laborious that it loses its antic charm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Other instances are Eli Whitney’s 1794 invention of his cotton gin to replace laborious hand cleaning of cotton grown in the U.S.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing laborious
Excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
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