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Recent Examples of laborious After municipalities waited months for their reimbursement claims to make it through the laborious FEMA approval process, their requests were sent to Noem’s desk pending her signoff — and were sitting there for months, Campbell said. Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2025 On top of this, the game’s plodding pace, laborious puzzles, and sluggish character movement left us at the edge of our wits, rather than our seats. Echo Apsey, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025 There is more to follow, all of which pertains to the film’s title and is rather laborious to discuss in a review without spoilers. Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025 Robots can master human actions within minutes, skipping the laborious task of engineers having to program them to perform those tasks. Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for laborious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for laborious
Adjective
  • When shopping for supplements, be diligent about choosing products that contain quality ingredients and are made by reputable companies.
    Sam Manzella, Flow Space, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Identifying stocks that combine strong fundamentals with cheap valuations should remain a priority for diligent investors.
    David Trainer, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Winning that game won't be easy, but winning it without Lamb would be even more difficult.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Sep. 2025
  • There will be times, like at a raucous Goodison Park last February, when Everton can rise to an occasion and make life difficult for their neighbours.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • More than 3 million clinicians have trusted the tool for over three decades and are already using it to find best practices for challenging, complex medical cases.
    Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Sometimes finding the comment section in the wee hours has been more challenging than the puzzle itself.
    Mark Cooper, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Facebook users have mentioned that the restaurant is busy as customers are getting in their last few moments of home style Korean cooking.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Chanel rounded out a busy month of parties in New York to celebrate the launch of Bleu de Chanel L’Exclusif, its new men’s fragrance that debuted in August.
    James Manso, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Every credit card review is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of credit card products.
    Ryley Amond, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Instead, this is about rigorous proofs found in mathematical logic via algorithmic search.
    Byron Cook, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Oh, and New Amy also discovers than everyone pretty much hated Old Amy, who was a demanding, uncompromising chief of internal medicine with no time for niceties.
    Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The work is physically demanding and emotionally draining.
    Big Think, Big Think, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The engaged couple is still working together at the same police department.
    Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The fans have a right to be an engaged part of that cause.
    Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • An editor approached me with a tough assignment of tasting, evaluating and reviewing a chicken Caesar wrap.
    Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The news that Aleksander Barkov will all but assuredly miss all of the 2025-26 season after undergoing surgery on Friday to repair the ACL and MCL in right knee was tough for the Florida Panthers to hear.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025

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“Laborious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laborious. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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