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Verderber is a full-time attorney with the State of Montana, and adding another time-consuming gig didn’t fit with her schedule at the time.
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Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 11 Mar. 2026
Roto baseball is time-consuming, a grind and requires more intensive knowledge to compete.
—Michael Salfino, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
However, Popovici said the most time-consuming part is researching and building the datasets.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
Surely, sports writers would pass around a hat for donations as a reward for someone else taking care of the most time-consuming requirement in the coverage of a game.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
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Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 11 Mar. 2026
Roto baseball is time-consuming, a grind and requires more intensive knowledge to compete.
—Michael Salfino, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
However, Popovici said the most time-consuming part is researching and building the datasets.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
Surely, sports writers would pass around a hat for donations as a reward for someone else taking care of the most time-consuming requirement in the coverage of a game.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
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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 Mar. 2026.
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