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Recent Examples of effortful Igor’s eyes were cloudy, and his chest rattled with effortful breathing. Brandon Taylor, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2025 Cronin said that the Ducks’ recent pair of losses to the Kings – the Ducks also lost to their crosstown rivals, 3-2, on Saturday in Ontario – demonstrated some of what his club should emulate in terms of effortful shot-blocking and aggressive forechecking. Andrew Knoll, Orange County Register, 1 Oct. 2024 But researchers still don’t fully understand why some people value effortful options more than others do. Piotr Winkielman, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2025 Sometimes, stars on SNL are born of effortful attention-seeking. Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for effortful
Recent Examples of Synonyms for effortful
Adjective
  • The Whitecaps won games in Mexico, which is difficult to do.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The task for Denver tonight will be that much more difficult if Michael Porter Jr. (shoulder) is unavailable or limited.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The star went on to touch upon the more challenging aspects of parenthood in the interview, too, revealing to Harper’s Bazaar that RZA initially struggled with the idea of welcoming a sibling but eventually came around to being a big brother.
    Clare Fisher, People.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Preserving that right to choose is what will help the Maryland economy flourish and grow during economically challenging times.
    Albert R. Wynn, Baltimore Sun, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Every debt-relief product review is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of debt-relief products.
    Dana Miranda, CNBC, 29 Apr. 2025
  • This month, a study found that the people who’d participated in a rigorous diet-and-exercise program in the late nineteen-nineties, as Bryant did, were substantially less likely to develop diabetes decades later.
    Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Published in English, Tehelka had a small circulation but an outsized reputation for tough investigations.
    Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Four times, he’s used it to strikeout hitters, with the horizontal break being tough to pick up.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Tuesday is when teams stage their most demanding practice ahead of a Saturday match.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Veterinary professionals work long hours in a physically demanding job.
    Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Sandoval has received some pay bumps, including a temporary $10,000-a-year bonus for Hawaii special education teachers designed to alleviate shortages in that and other hard-to-staff areas.
    Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Whether those numbers are an overstatement, or possibly an understatement, is hard to say.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023

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“Effortful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/effortful. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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