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Recent Examples of time-consuming
Most measures fail to qualify for the process, which requires a time-consuming and expensive signature-gathering effort.
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Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2025
In another development, Northwestern University chemists developed a groundbreaking method that skips the time-consuming step of sorting plastics and directly converts stubborn single-use plastics into useful products like fuels, waxes, and lubricants.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
Collecting that data is expensive, time-consuming and difficult to scale.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Bottle episodes are designed to save money for more ambitious episodes elsewhere in a season through some combination of only using preexisting sets, hiring few (if any) guest actors, and not doing time-consuming set pieces.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
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Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2025
In another development, Northwestern University chemists developed a groundbreaking method that skips the time-consuming step of sorting plastics and directly converts stubborn single-use plastics into useful products like fuels, waxes, and lubricants.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
Collecting that data is expensive, time-consuming and difficult to scale.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Bottle episodes are designed to save money for more ambitious episodes elsewhere in a season through some combination of only using preexisting sets, hiring few (if any) guest actors, and not doing time-consuming set pieces.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 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 13 Sep. 2025.
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