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tedious

[tee-dee-uhs, tee-juhs] / ˈti di əs, ˈti dʒəs /


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Historically, businesses weren’t only buying labor but also training junior employees over time to build good judgment by requiring them to perform repetitive, tedious tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

The FDA’s road to regulating compounding pharmacies — and by extension the peptides they seek to dispense — has been long and tedious.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

It took roughly two weeks of tedious work, sifting through hours of grainy recordings.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

But so many better horror features have been constructed along the same lines—“X,” “House of 1000 Corpses”— that this one comes across as merely a tedious also-ran.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

He recalled the incidents in tedious detail and was still puzzled.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers




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