laborious
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Regulatory shortcuts exist that would allow the FDA to skip the more laborious approval process.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026
“While we have tried to simplify the underlying concepts behind the Ontology model, building and implementing an Ontology in a large enterprise is a laborious process,” the analysts say.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
Yet if the rise to peak Iranian power in 2023 was laborious, the descent from it has been swift.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
This is more laborious, of course, but also more likely to fetch you that bigger paycheck.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026
Maddie fought the aircraft for a while, straightened the rudder, felt the speed increase as Dympna’s laborious cranking of the undercarriage began to progress and the extra drag fell away.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
Vocabulary lists containing laborious
Excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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