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View definitions for laboriously

laboriously

adverb as in strenuously

adverb as in diligently

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She worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a “human computer,” laboriously measuring the positions and brightness of thousands of stars on photographic plates.

From Salon

The list of phrases has grown manually and laboriously to more than 5000 known “fingerprints” of potential misconduct.

One of his grandchildren brings out a plastic chair and he sits down, breathing laboriously.

From BBC

Once upon a time, for reasons that are laboriously teased out, he landed in the jungle, where he was taken under wing by a punishing caretaker, the Shaman.

Once upon a time, alpinists laboriously hacked steps into it — literal stairways to heaven.

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

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