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Meanings of laborious in English
Synonyms
Examples for "hard"
Examples for "hard"
1
First year was fine, he says, but second year was very hard.
2
But there's also a lot of hard work involved, often physical work.
3
It has been a year of hard work, focus, and great success.
4
Result: Stylish and yet hard to use and packed with proprietary technology.
5
Crew members don't just work hard -they often work every day.
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China's new climate-related insurance services, however, often depend on heavy government subsidies.
2
Reporting remains subject to heavy legal constraint, thus key information remains obscured.
3
Twenty years of freedom have seen heavy investment is Soweto's public transport.
4
And Western Australia has particularly heavy penalties under its Public Health Act.
5
There is also new evidence that heavy precipitation has increased in Europe.
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Mr Vailea said teachers punishing students physically is clearly against the law.
2
The market seems to be punishing companies in that position, he added.
3
It was punishing; he had never before done such hard physical work.
4
The main end of the punishing affair was to feed their writing.
5
We could also start punishing all murderers with public torture and beheading.
1
She helped people with the arduous paperwork involved in collecting government aid.
2
Revitalizing the New Orleans streetcar system has been a slow, arduous process.
3
It is arduous and often painful, but helps provide for their families.
4
These arduous examinations, particularly the Leaving, are also a uniquely Irish experience.
5
It had been a long, arduous journey through New Crobuzon's vaulted conduits.
1
The following year he had a gruelling training period in nine movies.
2
Few Irish athletes remain more committed, particularly in such a gruelling event.
3
A set of knives and the beginning of a gruelling training regime.
4
Yet again we have seen gruelling evidence thirty-two teams are too many.
5
Their ascent has been far longer and more gruelling than Veronica expected.
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It was 13 weeks of grueling work chest-deep in water and cold.
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Photo: supplied In the south island another grueling event is also underway.
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A grueling multi-hour training session may call for 90 grams per hour.
4
A month of hard travel-aftera month of grueling training and heartache.
5
Ferreting him out was going to be a long, grueling, time-consuming process.
1
She had before her a toilsome journey in the companionship of men.
2
And now commenced their toilsome journey down the side of the cataract.
3
Contrast with this toilsome slowness the speed of the junk bound down-stream.
4
Two years or more passed away in quiet, toilsome days for Mildred.
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It was the same old smoky, toilsome place, a perceptible bit lower.
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New York then added two backbreaking goals late in the second period.
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The going was harder now; it was backbreaking work pulling the line.
3
He'd take a bit of marching over that backbreaking work any time.
4
It was a backbreaking job, and the real work hadn't even begun.
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Tommy wondered, too, whether his father's backbreaking work was hurting his golf.
1
Some of the Xenia are far-fetched and operose, while others sound rather vacuous.
2
But what an operose method!
Usage of laborious in English
1
The work was laborious and pointless, as far as Aylaen could see.
2
Time went on; things happened; but Ryecroft was still laborious and poor.
3
Similarly, advances in science and medicine have been achieved through laborious research.
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In one minute the respiration was laborious, and the pupils were dilated.
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Health and posterity are the portion of the poor- Imeanthe laborious.
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Current assessment technologies are time-consuming and laborious and involve bacterial culturing methods.
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My progress is often slow and can be laborious, but I'm independent.
8
The modern Leaving Certificate is time-consuming, stressful and often laborious for teenagers.
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Search for causing mutations is very laborious, time consuming and low effective.
10
Her life had much in it of laborious tedium-tediumnever-ending and monotonous.
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In the past, the methods of quantitative assessment were laborious and arcane.
12
The process of constructing standard curves is laborious and consumes additional reagents.
13
The course lay up the ascent, and still continued hazardous and laborious.
14
He was laborious, clearheaded, and profoundly versed in the details of finance.
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Midway in that laborious ascent, the monk called to him to stop.
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For most of the past century, sourcing these was a laborious affair.
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Laborious through the time
Laborious across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common