tedium
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Artificial intelligence could cut the time and tedium of preparing your 2025 tax return.
From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026
In the seesawing tedium of daily traffic, slow and fast, the e-motor silently and seamlessly supports the big V8 in those few hundred milliseconds it takes to spool up.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
This tedium is less than ideal for most lifestyles, and it’s why study after study shows budgets to be unhelpful and unsustainable.
From Salon • May 24, 2025
It is "a turgid eyesore" and "top-dollar tedium", according to the Times.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2025
He adds that hard work is involved—“the tedium of going through what has often been written and read, and of masticating repeatedly, as it were, the same food.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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