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Recent Examples of time-consuming
Each helps families avoid probate, which can be time-consuming, costly and public, potentially inviting challenges.
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Medora Lee, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
Luigi Avantaggiato Today, curation and annotation are time-consuming processes, regarded as major bottlenecks to the rapid progress that the Earth BioGenome Project desperately needs to reach its 2035 goal.
—Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025
Currently, identifying protein interactions experimentally is both costly and time-consuming.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
However, experience suggests comprehensive pest proofing is time-consuming, often impractical and usually not 100% effective.
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 27 Oct. 2025
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Medora Lee, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
Luigi Avantaggiato Today, curation and annotation are time-consuming processes, regarded as major bottlenecks to the rapid progress that the Earth BioGenome Project desperately needs to reach its 2035 goal.
—Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025
Currently, identifying protein interactions experimentally is both costly and time-consuming.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
However, experience suggests comprehensive pest proofing is time-consuming, often impractical and usually not 100% effective.
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 27 Oct. 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 28 Nov. 2025.
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