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as in to emphasize
to speak or write about insistently and usually tiresomely stop belaboring the fact that they're already in debt

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Recent Examples of belabor Frey, who likes to belabor his points until the carcass of the horse has actually disintegrated, writes: Somebody wanted Alexander the Great to be remembered as Alexander the Dead and Humiliated. Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 17 June 2025 The director, Jonathan Entwistle, doesn’t belabor it. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 May 2025 Fourth, do athletic departments and institutions at-large have the inherent pace and capability to evaluate a large potential investment? Not to belabor the point, but these are green field transactions. Jesse Silvertown, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025 The door series, in particular, comes off as belabored because of its rote presentation. Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for belabor
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  • In recent years, as American moms have been enthusiastically encouraged to breastfeed, many experts have emphasized that making sure infants are fed, period, should be parents’ highest priority.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Psychologist Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of Nonviolent Communication, emphasized that beneath most criticisms or demands lies a universal human need.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
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  • Charlie was the best of America, and the monster who attacked him was attacking our whole country.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Estonian police said the drone was likely en route to attack targets inside Russia.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
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  • That could look like gliding your fingers down them, kissing, licking, or gently biting those areas.
    Essence, Essence, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Go from the base to the tip with your tongue, kiss it, lick it and remember most of us have difficulties cumming just with oral.
    Ian Kumamoto, Them., 10 Sep. 2025
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  • Shipp is tasked with scolding her father and delivering leaden exposition.
    Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In Part 2, viewers see Morticia scold her children for lying to her, yet Morticia is keeping secrets from Wednesday about her past and family.
    Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • Ford dropped it from the Explorer’s retail lineup, but continues to offer it in police vehicles, which benefit from its ability to power AC and other accessories without running the engine when parked, as patrol vehicles often spend lots of time doing.
    Mark Phelan, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Never follow your boyfriend to college, especially a seemingly mediocre college, as Belly does with Jeremiah to the fictional Finch.
    Vogue, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
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  • During hours of debate on Friday, which Republicans eventually shut down using a procedural move, Democrats continued to slam the new map as detrimental to voters – particularly for voters in Kansas City, Missouri, which would be split among multiple districts.
    Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Other coffee bean-growing countries are also being slammed with tariffs.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • The most notorious, in 1978, saw the late queen hide behind a bush in the gardens of Buckingham Palace to avoid Nicolae Ceaușescu, having already removed anything that the Romanian dictator could steal from his room following a warning from Giscard d'Estaing, the then French president.
    Ian King, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Other newborns were given away by their grandparents who conspired with doctors, priests and nuns to hide a daughter’s socially embarrassing pregnancy.
    Rafael Romo, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
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  • Some drivers also insult and demean people with disabilities or refuse reasonable requests such as letting passengers with mobility impairments sit in the front seat.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
  • These summaries read like a bad high school essay and insult your audience's intelligence.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Belabor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belabor. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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