labored
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Fields’s opening sentence spans 26 words, yet it never sounds labored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The noise of backhoes, cranes and bulldozers echoed across Colombia's quake-hit cities on Sunday as workers labored to remove rubble, though the chance of finding survivors was slim a week after the disaster.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Cooper has long labored with a bureaucratic disadvantage: he lacks the easy access that Caine has to the Oval Office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Last Thanksgiving, Megan Thee Stallion labored for days to prepare an elaborate holiday dinner for then-boyfriend Klay Thompson and his family.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2026
No gene, no message, and no protein labored in vain.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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