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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

“Students are being onerously and unfairly censored all the time,” Hurst said.

From Washington Post Jan. 12, 2020

She used to read to the blind, and, more onerously, to the deaf.

From Georgina's Reasons by James, Henry




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