Laborious
adjective
Requiring a lot of time and effort.
Reading the entire book was a laborious task.
Often appears as...
- laborious task
- laborious process
adjective
Hard-working.
He is a laborious student who spends hours studying each day.
Often appears as...
- laborious worker
- laborious efforts
adjective
Requiring a lot of time and effort.
Reading the entire book was a laborious task.
Often appears as...
- laborious task
- laborious process
adjective
Hard-working.
He is a laborious student who spends hours studying each day.
Often appears as...
- laborious worker
- laborious efforts
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Pro Tip 1/3Time Commitment
Use 'laborious' for tasks that take a lot of effort over an extended period.
Completing the project was a laborious endeavor, extending late into the nights.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Nuance
'Laborious' often implies the work is not only hard but also somewhat dull or tedious.
The laborious data entry work left the employees feeling exhausted and bored.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasis on Difficulty
The word 'laborious' highlights the difficulty rather than the importance of the activity.
Though laborious, the job of sorting the files was necessary.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Commitment
Use 'laborious' for tasks that take a lot of effort over an extended period.
Completing the project was a laborious endeavor, extending late into the nights.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Nuance
'Laborious' often implies the work is not only hard but also somewhat dull or tedious.
The laborious data entry work left the employees feeling exhausted and bored.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasis on Difficulty
The word 'laborious' highlights the difficulty rather than the importance of the activity.
Though laborious, the job of sorting the files was necessary.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Commitment
Use 'laborious' for tasks that take a lot of effort over an extended period.
Completing the project was a laborious endeavor, extending late into the nights.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Nuance
'Laborious' often implies the work is not only hard but also somewhat dull or tedious.
The laborious data entry work left the employees feeling exhausted and bored.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasis on Difficulty
The word 'laborious' highlights the difficulty rather than the importance of the activity.
Though laborious, the job of sorting the files was necessary.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin:...
But his greatness consisted, and historians would roundly agree, in the integrity of his character and the moral fiber of his being. So in the end that powerful ambition that had carried Lincoln through his bleak childhood had been realized. That ambition that had allowed him to laboriously educate himself by himself,
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A Quick Tour of Base...
set up our base camp and where to put the dining tent and our toilet tents and our shower tents and then also where we're actually going to get our water from this is where all of our water is coming from and it's down inside of but it's a bit laborious trying to get water
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The dangerous race for...
following the path of Ernest Shackleton's earlier attempt to reach the pole. But although this course had been documented, it proved slow and laborious. Meanwhile, despite an initial false start, Amundsen’s five-man team made good time using a previously uncharted route
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What you don't know...
The beauty of this research, though, is that no one is suggesting that women have to be thin to be happy. We just have to be thinner than our partners. So instead of all that laborious dieting and exercising, we just need to wait for them to get fat --
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The race to sequence the...
So in 1998, scientists around the world were furiously sequencing lines of genetic code using the tried and true, yet laborious, Sanger method. Finally, after three exhausting years of continuous sequencing and assembling, the verdict was in.
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David Bismark: E-voting...
that the election system works. They trust that election workers and election observers do their jobs and do their jobs correctly. The ballot boxes go to counting places. They're unsealed and the votes are poured out and laboriously counted.
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Paula Scher: Great...
for this crazy, crazy existence of going to these long, idiotic meetings. And I was up in my country house, and for some reason, I began painting these very big, very involved, laborious, complicated maps of the entire world,
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Feats of memory anyone...
was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today. Once upon a time, people invested in their memories, in laboriously furnishing their minds. Over the last few millenia, we've invented a series of technologies --
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What is dyslexia? -...
How was that? Frustrating? Slow? What were those sentences about? They're actually a simulation of the experience of dyslexia, designed to make you decode each word. Those with dyslexia experience that laborious pace
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A forgotten ancient...
How could fonio partake in this market share? There are many challenges in turning fonio into food. Traditional processing is laborious and time-consuming, especially when compared to other grains.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin:...
But his greatness consisted, and historians would roundly agree, in the integrity of his character and the moral fiber of his being. So in the end that powerful ambition that had carried Lincoln through his bleak childhood had been realized. That ambition that had allowed him to laboriously educate himself by himself,
Video examples
A Quick Tour of Base...
set up our base camp and where to put the dining tent and our toilet tents and our shower tents and then also where we're actually going to get our water from this is where all of our water is coming from and it's down inside of but it's a bit laborious trying to get water
Video examples
The dangerous race for...
following the path of Ernest Shackleton's earlier attempt to reach the pole. But although this course had been documented, it proved slow and laborious. Meanwhile, despite an initial false start, Amundsen’s five-man team made good time using a previously uncharted route
Video examples
What you don't know...
The beauty of this research, though, is that no one is suggesting that women have to be thin to be happy. We just have to be thinner than our partners. So instead of all that laborious dieting and exercising, we just need to wait for them to get fat --
Video examples
The race to sequence the...
So in 1998, scientists around the world were furiously sequencing lines of genetic code using the tried and true, yet laborious, Sanger method. Finally, after three exhausting years of continuous sequencing and assembling, the verdict was in.
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David Bismark: E-voting...
that the election system works. They trust that election workers and election observers do their jobs and do their jobs correctly. The ballot boxes go to counting places. They're unsealed and the votes are poured out and laboriously counted.
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Paula Scher: Great...
for this crazy, crazy existence of going to these long, idiotic meetings. And I was up in my country house, and for some reason, I began painting these very big, very involved, laborious, complicated maps of the entire world,
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Feats of memory anyone...
was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today. Once upon a time, people invested in their memories, in laboriously furnishing their minds. Over the last few millenia, we've invented a series of technologies --
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What is dyslexia? -...
How was that? Frustrating? Slow? What were those sentences about? They're actually a simulation of the experience of dyslexia, designed to make you decode each word. Those with dyslexia experience that laborious pace
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A forgotten ancient...
How could fonio partake in this market share? There are many challenges in turning fonio into food. Traditional processing is laborious and time-consuming, especially when compared to other grains.
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Wolfgang Schauble
German Politician
This much is true: When we created the euro, it wasn't possible to create a political union along with it. People weren't ready for that. But since then, they've grown more willing to go in that direction. It's a process, one that is sometimes laborious and sometimes slow. But it's important to keep the populations involved.
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Rhea Perlman
American Actress
Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.
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Jose Angel Gurria
Mexican Economist
The whole banking sector in Mexico was literally bankrupt. For whatever reason, instead of intervening in the sector or supporting the banks, the government expropriated them. We went through the very laborious period of selling the failing banks to the wealthy people of Mexico.
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Anais Nin
American Author
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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Martin Cooper
American Scientist
There are all kinds of features that will become part of cell phones that will help us offload the more laborious things of life and let us focus on doing the things humans do well, like abstract thinking and creating.
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Victor Hugo
French Author
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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Ezra Cornell
American Businessman
My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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Winston Churchill
British Statesman
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
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John Williams
American Composer
Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.
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Wolfgang Schauble
German Politician
This much is true: When we created the euro, it wasn't possible to create a political union along with it. People weren't ready for that. But since then, they've grown more willing to go in that direction. It's a process, one that is sometimes laborious and sometimes slow. But it's important to keep the populations involved.
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Rhea Perlman
American Actress
Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.
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Jose Angel Gurria
Mexican Economist
The whole banking sector in Mexico was literally bankrupt. For whatever reason, instead of intervening in the sector or supporting the banks, the government expropriated them. We went through the very laborious period of selling the failing banks to the wealthy people of Mexico.
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Anais Nin
American Author
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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Martin Cooper
American Scientist
There are all kinds of features that will become part of cell phones that will help us offload the more laborious things of life and let us focus on doing the things humans do well, like abstract thinking and creating.
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Victor Hugo
French Author
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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Ezra Cornell
American Businessman
My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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Winston Churchill
British Statesman
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
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John Williams
American Composer
Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.
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