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Recent Examples of time-consuming
As Bogong moth brains are around the size of a grain of rice, adding the sensors was incredibly time-consuming.
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 18 June 2025
Working on makeup for an actor of a television series can be a time-consuming process, especially when prosthetics are involved.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 17 June 2025
Since taking the helm in 2023, Wentworth has repeatedly warned investors that many elements of the company need a time-consuming turnaround—from its tired stores, ill-equipped for the e-commerce era, to shrinking reimbursement rates, to demoralized staff.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 17 June 2025
Rigorous cancer-screening trials are expensive, time-consuming, methodologically thorny, and maddeningly uncertain.
—Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 18 June 2025
Working on makeup for an actor of a television series can be a time-consuming process, especially when prosthetics are involved.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 17 June 2025
Since taking the helm in 2023, Wentworth has repeatedly warned investors that many elements of the company need a time-consuming turnaround—from its tired stores, ill-equipped for the e-commerce era, to shrinking reimbursement rates, to demoralized staff.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 17 June 2025
Rigorous cancer-screening trials are expensive, time-consuming, methodologically thorny, and maddeningly uncertain.
—Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 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 30 Jun. 2025.
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