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as in actively
in a manner involving great or constant activity
working laboriously late into the night in order to meet the deadline
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as in hard
with great effort or determination
the farmer laboriously pruned all season long to produce the finest crop of grapes possible
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Recent Examples of laboriously
The now 6-2 Patriots started slow, laboriously taking a 9-7 lead into halftime against the Browns.
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Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
The technology is rapidly replacing the old days of crime-scene investigators crafting hand sketches and using tape measures to laboriously take down measurements.
—Sean Emery, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2025
Instead of laboriously testing compounds one by one in wet labs or waiting weeks for physics simulations to finish, scientists can now triage molecules digitally at supercomputer scale.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
The technology is rapidly replacing the old days of crime-scene investigators crafting hand sketches and using tape measures to laboriously take down measurements.
—Sean Emery, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2025
Instead of laboriously testing compounds one by one in wet labs or waiting weeks for physics simulations to finish, scientists can now triage molecules digitally at supercomputer scale.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for laboriously
Adverb
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As Border patrol arrested one individual, who actively resisted arrest, pepper spray was deployed spray to deter the agitator and disperse the crowd.—
NPR,
NPR,
3 Nov. 2025
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Senators are actively discussing a deal that would reopen the government, including hashing out a new stopgap funding bill that would last at least until December — and possibly beyond.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
3 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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There’s nobody who works harder than Cristobal.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
3 Nov. 2025
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And even harder, the task ahead for that leader.—
Stephen J. Nesbitt,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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The top four appropriators, Cole, Collins, House ranking member Rosa DeLauro (D-MA), and Senate ranking member Patty Murray (D-WA), have to diligently work together in an effort to achieve the tough process of passing 12 appropriations bills across the floor of both chambers.—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
23 Oct. 2025
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While many companies initially invested diligently in their AI teams and development, the technology has sometimes led to those exact roles being deemed unnecessary.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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And managers are reluctant to crack down too intensively.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2025
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Leyla’s was a Frenchman, an art collector twice her age, who picked her up in one of Moscow’s posh night clubs and began to educate her intensively.—
Julia Ioffe,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Make sure to eat a balanced diet and get adequate calories when exercising intensely.—
Wendy Wisner,
Health,
24 Oct. 2025
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Bottles may feature a variety of whole, colorful peppers, and the flavor is more acidic than intensely spicy.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
22 Oct. 2025
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Though the talk was of the details of a life, the shadow that hung above our conversation, as one had hung above that life, was intently political.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
30 Oct. 2025
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Rufus gathers from the firefighters that a gas main probably exploded while Mark captures, in his phone, the image of a man hovering by the accident, staring intently ahead like a ghost.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
29 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The Athletic recently outlined a novel approach that sides are trialling against Barcelona, in which No 9s are purposefully left offside to be played on by overlapping team-mates later in the move.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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One of the defendants texted another co-conspirator that Billups should purposefully lose a hand to avoid cheating suspicions.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Since its debut, the initiative has been quietly but determinedly building physical bases in Lagos and Kenya, creating tangible spaces where female artists, producers, and engineers can access resources that Tems herself had to fight to find.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
4 Nov. 2025
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For long-haul trips, consider the Southern Hemisphere for a jolt of vitamin D in a rugged, determinedly uncommercial spot, or take a dip in a memorable, albeit temporary, Japanese onsen.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Laboriously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laboriously. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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