onerously
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They took a toll, onerously so, like an undertow at the ocean shoreline that yanks you down into the muddy sand underfoot, and my debt more than quadrupled.
From Salon ● May 11, 2025
Most onerously, the pill had to be given in person in an approved clinical setting—even though a second drug used to complete the abortion, misoprostol, could be taken at home.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 2, 2022
Yet crop insurance rates remained onerously high, the younger Enriquez said, so the farm went without this year.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
Race or racism plays into the way that certain policies are shaped, and bureaucratic requirements for getting help can be arcane and onerously cumulative.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 2, 2018
But the spirit of foreboding lay onerously upon him, and he slept so fitfully that the first gray of dawn found him up and abroad.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
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