as in challenging
requiring much time, effort, or careful attention
a very taxing workload that is taking a lot of time to finish
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as in stretching
to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress
your constant arguing is starting to tax my patience
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Recent Examples of taxing
Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 18 June 2025
Darcy Davis, the CEO of the county’s Health Care District, an independent taxing district that provides medical services, said continuing to focus on and expand prevention care also will be crucial to keeping overdose death rates low.
—Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2025
The argument is laid out simply in the first paragraph of the decision:
In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress delegated its taxing power to the Federal Communications Commission.
—Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
On a taxing morning in the fall of 2008, Kevin Patullo walked into a staff room in which the whiteboards were all blank.
—Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 2 June 2025
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Adjective
Few people have insight into the difficult and taxing process of gaining legal status in the US, or the work put in behind the scenes by the attorneys representing these cases.
—Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 18 June 2025
Darcy Davis, the CEO of the county’s Health Care District, an independent taxing district that provides medical services, said continuing to focus on and expand prevention care also will be crucial to keeping overdose death rates low.
—Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2025
The argument is laid out simply in the first paragraph of the decision:
In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress delegated its taxing power to the Federal Communications Commission.
—Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
On a taxing morning in the fall of 2008, Kevin Patullo walked into a staff room in which the whiteboards were all blank.
—Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 2 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for taxing
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Taking the most challenging courses available — like AP, IB, honors, or dual enrollment classes — signals preparedness for college-level work.—
Liz Doe Stone,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Because of this consistent advocacy, the Mayor selected me to help lead efforts to move Council forward through this challenging time.—
Nick Sullivan,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Baldwin has done it while playing the most difficult and demanding position on the diamond, mentally in terms of daily meetings and film study, and physically from the toll of working beneath pads in the summer heat and getting nicked up from foul tips, collisions and occasional wayward swings.—
David O'Brien,
New York Times,
14 Aug. 2025
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This has come as a result of America being too demanding and being very political.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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New York police on Monday were trying to determine why someone set a woman ablaze board a train in Brooklyn in a fatal attack drawing outrage from city and state leaders who have been laboring to make the trains safer.—
John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
24 Dec. 2024
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Nobody inside the Minnesota Wild locker room was trying to insult anybody’s intelligence by claiming a 1-goal win Monday night over the worst team in the NHL completely cured their recent ills.—
Michael Russo,
The Athletic,
24 Dec. 2024
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This deep understanding of local transportation patterns would have been difficult with rapid multi-city expansion.—
Tima Bansal,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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No calendar issue generates more frustration, or is more difficult to solve, than the transfer portal.—
Jon Wilner,
Mercury News,
7 Aug. 2025
Verb
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He was forced to leave the game in the final minutes of the Pelicans’ Play-In Tournament loss to the Lakers last season after straining his left hamstring.—
William Guillory,
The Athletic,
8 Jan. 2025
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Le Pen's remarks often sparked public outrage, but his influence shaped France's populist movement, with his inflammatory statements, including Holocaust denial, resulting in multiple convictions and straining his political alliances.—
Kevin Lynn,
Newsweek,
7 Jan. 2025
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With the MacBook Air launching earlier than the iPhone SE and ahead of the next Apple Intelligence update, this points to a press release launch and Apple pushing its consumer laptops further into the background.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
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That presents some planning opportunities, including possibly pushing some SALT payments into 2026.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
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“Taxing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/taxing. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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