Definition of taxing
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The journey proved to be very taxing.
a very taxing workload that is taking a lot of time to finish
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When an area is designated as a TIF district, property tax revenue – which is divvied up among taxing bodies including public schools – is frozen.
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When an area is designated as a TIF district, property tax revenue — which is divvied up among taxing bodies including public schools — is frozen.
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That is unless Coach Tyronn Lue can find other mildly effective defenders (Tristan Thompson, Richard Jefferson) to allow James a less taxing chore for at least some of his 40 or so minutes per game.
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Taxing experiences: In the wake of voters approving Measure HH,, a one-percent sales tax increase, comes the process of implementing the plan and choosing members of a committee that will oversee how the money is spent.
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The Transcendental Études contain some of the most taxing piano writing ever put on paper: jagged chords strewn all over the keyboard, everywhere-leaping arpeggiated figures, pages of double octaves.
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First Known Use of taxing
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: requiring a lot of effort, energy, etc.
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