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laborious

[luh-bawr-ee-uhs] / ləˈbɔr i əs /




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Cooking a full-fledged meal from scratch seems too laborious.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 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

Almost a week later he’s still upset, and he writes to Theo and Jo about the “rather difficult and laborious hours” they’d spent together.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman




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