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adjective

Definition of laborednext
as in manufactured

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verb

past tense of labor
as in struggled
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
Adjective
This is because games like The Last Guardian had a pretty labored development cycle due to the technical issues with the game’s toolset, among many other things. — Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026 His breathing became increasingly labored. — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
Verb
About 2,700 engineers labored on the project. — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026 Stephen Kolek labored through the first three innings for Kansas City, delivering 55 pitches and allowing six baserunners, but stranded four. — CBS News, 10 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for labored
Recent Examples of Synonyms for labored
  1. manufactured
  2. struggled
  3. strained
  4. worked
  5. contrived
  6. endeavored
  7. automatic
  8. toiled
Adjective
  • The twister shoved a porch several feet from its manufactured home, according to the report.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 11 July 2026
  • 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.
    — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
Definition of manufactured
Verb
  • Turkey struggled against the USMNT’s corners throughout the game, with multiple chances created from outswinging corners towards the penalty spot.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 14 July 2026
  • The visit comes as Garrity trails Shapiro by roughly 20 points, raising questions about how much political influence DeSantis carries in a battleground state where his 2024 presidential campaign struggled to break through.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 14 July 2026
Definition of struggled
Adjective
  • But things between Harry and his older brother, Prince William, reportedly remain strained.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 15 July 2026
  • Increasing Spanish costs for defense, such as building forts and training militia, led to higher taxes and strained local economies.
    — Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, The Conversation, 13 July 2026
Definition of strained
Verb
  • Brown’s wife was Bruneau’s best friend at the time of the victim’s death, and both women worked as flight attendants for Braniff Airlines, a Grapevine police detective wrote in an arrest warrant affidavit filed in June.
    — Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026
  • Part of what makes AI so useful in health and medicine is that the technology excels at identifying trends in large swaths of data, said Jason Droege, CEO of Scale AI, which worked with Mayo Clinic to develop Record Time.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
Definition of worked
Adjective
  • The look manages to be on trend without being too contrived.
    — Selene Oliva, Glamour, 12 June 2026
  • 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.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2026
Definition of contrived
Verb
  • Years later, a second producer endeavored to make a movie of Sebold’s memoir.
    — ProPublica, ProPublica, 14 July 2026
  • When Disney+ first launched, the House of Mouse endeavored to make its streaming platform the new home of all things Star Wars.
    — Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 21 May 2026
Definition of endeavored
Adjective
  • Setting up recurring automatic contributions is a good way to slowly build your investment fund.
    — Elizabeth Gravier,Dan Avery, CNBC, 16 July 2026
  • The legislative provision must include gradual and continual reductions in federal debt held by the public as a percent of GDP between the date of enactment and Fiscal 2040 with automatic enforcement mechanisms.
    — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 15 July 2026
Definition of automatic
Verb
  • Unable to play with any fluency, Argentina toiled and Messi was peripheral.
    — Stuart James, New York Times, 12 July 2026
  • As Pa, Ma, Mary and Laura toiled to make Independence their new home, a combination of unfortunate setbacks brought them to set out on this journey all over again.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 9 July 2026
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