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Recent Examples of time-consuming
No More Yard-wide Search for Breakpoints: If pets or tools damage the boundary wire, most mowers require time-consuming manual detection – not the MGC500 and MGC1000.
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New Atlas, 8 July 2025
Because of this, countries seeking out nuclear weapons often must turn to black markets or other clandestine methods in order to obtain the raw materials for fissile material — which is time-consuming and expensive.
—Brendan Rascius
july 8, Miami Herald, 8 July 2025
But that process can also be expensive and time-consuming.
—Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025
Seeing penalty abatement for reasonable cause can also be time-consuming and expensive so preventing the misclassification is a better course of action.
—Priya Prakash Royal Esq. Ll.m. Mba Aep Tep, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
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New Atlas, 8 July 2025
Because of this, countries seeking out nuclear weapons often must turn to black markets or other clandestine methods in order to obtain the raw materials for fissile material — which is time-consuming and expensive.
—Brendan Rascius
july 8, Miami Herald, 8 July 2025
But that process can also be expensive and time-consuming.
—Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025
Seeing penalty abatement for reasonable cause can also be time-consuming and expensive so preventing the misclassification is a better course of action.
—Priya Prakash Royal Esq. Ll.m. Mba Aep Tep, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for time-consuming
nonautomatic
Adjective
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That leaves the 40 percent of the budget that is discretionary spending (i.e., nonautomatic spending that Congress appropriates).—
Timothy Noah,
The New Republic,
1 Feb. 2023
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On two separate occasions within the last decade, Blum and his attorneys argued that the University of Texas was placing too much weight on race in nonautomatic admissions.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
30 Aug. 2019
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“Time-consuming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/time-consuming. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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