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to devote serious and sustained effort
the young lawyer labored most of the weekend over the difficult legal brief
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Recent Examples of labored
Allison Palmer,
Miami Herald,
6 May 2026
Mayo Clinic Press confirms that anxiety produces real physical responses, including labored breathing, muscle tightening and activation of the sympathetic nervous system.
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Allison Palmer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 May 2026
Betsy Helfand,
Twin Cities,
3 June 2026
The Thunder labored through a 111-103 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Saturday in a decisive Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals.
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Mark Medina,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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Adjective
Mayo Clinic Press notes that anxiety triggers labored breathing, muscle tightening and activation of the sympathetic nervous system, the body’s fight-or-flight wiring.
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Allison Palmer,
Miami Herald,
6 May 2026
Mayo Clinic Press confirms that anxiety produces real physical responses, including labored breathing, muscle tightening and activation of the sympathetic nervous system.
—
Allison Palmer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 May 2026
Verb
The start didn’t get much easier for Bradley, who labored through a four-inning effort and suffered the loss against the Pirates.
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Betsy Helfand,
Twin Cities,
3 June 2026
The Thunder labored through a 111-103 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Saturday in a decisive Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals.
—
Mark Medina,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for labored
Adjective
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Its role is to expose wrongdoing, illuminate facts, and draw the world’s attention to crimes committed in the name of false causes and manufactured justifications.
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Through this, researchers are mimicking natural structures, such as bird nests and bone minerals, to create ultra-strong manufactured materials.
Verb
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Additionally, both of those players have struggled to provide consistent impact as finishers at the rim and aren’t useful as shooters.
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The Volkswagen Group has struggled with its internal software division (Cariad) for years.
Adjective
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Austin Nieves, a recent transplant to the area and the man who had brought this brave group together, broke the strained silence by handing out beers.
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Dani provides the voiceover, filled with strained metaphors about earthquakes and sermons on the importance of summer, but the pretense that the dialogue is taken from his interrogation is quickly abandoned.
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La Roja needs quicker movement of the ball and its players, more adaptation to what the opponent is doing (Saudi Arabia is not going to play free and open after seeing what worked) and to be more ruthless.
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Elmo Fire Department I‑20 westbound was closed as crews worked the scene.
Adjective
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The look manages to be on trend without being too contrived.
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Whereas Heineman’s film used its incredible access to the central couple to capture moments that come across as beautifully and uncomfortably intimate and unstaged, Bergh (The Greatest Love Story Never Told) uses his access to make everything pretty and entirely too contrived.
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When Disney+ first launched, the House of Mouse endeavored to make its streaming platform the new home of all things Star Wars.
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Johnson for months endeavored to appoint his ally ex-Ald.
Adjective
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Miller got a fly ball out that moved the automatic runner to third base and then a strikeout before a single by Wyatt Langford brought in a run.
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The youngest of five siblings, she was born just one month after the country rescinded automatic birthright citizenship.
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Goodall had toiled 23 years as a janitor in a Terre Haute, Indiana, middle school when the 55-year old hopped a flight for the first time in his life, and took the AGT stage in Los Angeles.
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For 10 long years, the sovereign toiled in a 2-by-10-foot castle antechamber to create the perfect beer.
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“Labored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/labored. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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