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Recent Examples of time-consuming
Dissolving the fillers was both painful and time-consuming.
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
While that hustle is often celebrated, the reality is brutal, since bureaucracy, regulation and legal liability are exhausting and time-consuming.
—Anuradha Gupta, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Removing the shells from whole pumpkin seeds can be challenging and time-consuming due to their hard, fibrous shells.
—Johna Burdeos, Health, 19 Sep. 2025
Since Charlie had batched ahead, the margaritas weren’t too time-consuming.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2025
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
While that hustle is often celebrated, the reality is brutal, since bureaucracy, regulation and legal liability are exhausting and time-consuming.
—Anuradha Gupta, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Removing the shells from whole pumpkin seeds can be challenging and time-consuming due to their hard, fibrous shells.
—Johna Burdeos, Health, 19 Sep. 2025
Since Charlie had batched ahead, the margaritas weren’t too time-consuming.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 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 5 Oct. 2025.
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