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laboriously

adverb as in strenuously

adverb as in diligently

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Clumsy and laborious on land, crabeater seals are elegant and agile swimmers that spend their entire lives in the pack ice zone surrounding the frozen continent.

The president’s onslaught only escalated once the polls had closed and the laborious vote count ticked on.

Assembling tent poles with cold hands can be laborious, snow-covered trails can reduce travel speed, and finding water can be tricky when streams are frozen.

It is a laborious process, hence why devotees happily line up for chefs they believe can work magic in the meat, like Cristina Martinez of Philadelphia’s South Philly Barbacoa.

From Eater

The partnership with Nvidia, he said, required the companies to work together to make sure their respective technologies are compatible, a laborious task.

From Fortune

Hitch picks up his cane, pushes her aside, and laboriously tries to get to his feet, saying, “I'll do it myself.”

He would laboriously make his way from desk to loo, belt down a few, then return.

An “overproduced, overblown, confusingly dark and laboriously ambitious jumble,” ruled Newsday.

He came up laboriously—the more laboriously by virtue of his very efforts to show himself still nimble in his mistress's eyes.

He came back warily, forgetting his English accent, which he had laboriously imitated in admiration of a certain vaudeville hero.

I had always been accustomed to pause and very laboriously to kill every fish as I took it.

Laboriously enough, we pushed on for three days travel, a daily ascent and descent of 3000 feet marking our progress.

But nothing more was visible, and he turned back to the trail to see Uncle Billy laboriously climbing up the slope.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to laboriously, such as: arduously, energetically, hard, painfully, resolutely, and tiresomely.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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