laborious
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“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
And sometimes, that extra bit of effort just seems too laborious.
From Salon • Feb. 26, 2026
This is more laborious, of course, but also more likely to fetch you that bigger paycheck.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026
But it was laborious work, and once he’d listed all the ones he could recognize and left gaps for the rest, he and Asta both felt they’d spent enough time with it.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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