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Meanings of effortful in English

Requiring great physical effort.

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Usage of effortful in English
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R. E. Y. O.... Georgia read, in that same effortful, short-of-breath voice.
Heart-shaped box
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Each breath became effortful, each slower and more rasping than the last.
Caleb's crossing
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Relative to NC, UFOVt reduced activity in ROIs involved in effortful information processing.
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The activity of projecting, in short, was effortful, undesirable, and marred with self-doubt.
The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable
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The air has thickened through the day, and breathing seems effortful.
Real life & liars
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A low, effortful moan issued from the back of her throat.
The passage
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He always found the conversation especially effortful when it came to his own work.
Career of Evil
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It all seems suddenly so effortful, precarious, unlikely, even odd.
A monster's notes
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This gives the sufferer a strained, strangled, effortful voice quality.
The Irish Times
10
The figure heaved and shifted laboriously, releasing gasping puffs of breath and effortful grunts.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
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Such choices therefore require the development of potential value estimates to guide effortful goal-directed behavior.
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Harper made her effortful way toward the engine below.
The Fireman
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OT did not affect effortful motivation at any time-point.
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The effortful sneer had become a big goofball grin.
IT
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His face wore an outward expression of calm, but there was something effortful about this.
The passage
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This attention-dependent increase in frontal brain activation may be a neural marker for effortful listening.
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Effortful through the time