laborious
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But the sneaky charm evident in projects like “What We Do in the Shadows” has, of late, been replaced by laborious comedic set pieces and in “Klara and the Sun,” the results are disastrously twee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
But, as Stone makes clear in her video content, her definition of liking or even loving a husband is both laborious and ascetic to an extreme.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Another not-insignificant consideration: Selling a home is a time-consuming, exhausting, stressful and laborious process.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Another project is the laborious renovation of the Reflecting Pool, the 2,028-foot rectangular water basin on the National Mall.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
The school didn’t have its students learn programming by the laborious computer-card system, like virtually everyone else was doing in the 1960s.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing laborious
Excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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