time-consuming
adjective
time-con·sum·ing
ˈtīm-kən-ˈsü-miŋ 
1
: using or taking up a great deal of time
time-consuming chores
2
: wasteful of time
time-consuming tactics
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Gabriella Maestri, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2024
Collating information on just a single suspect could take hours, but more complex inquiries — like identifying all the individuals who attended a particular rally or published in a radical journal like Goldman’s Mother Earth — was prohibitively time-consuming.
—Steven Johnson, New York Times, 17 May 2024
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Gabriella Maestri, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2024
Collating information on just a single suspect could take hours, but more complex inquiries — like identifying all the individuals who attended a particular rally or published in a radical journal like Goldman’s Mother Earth — was prohibitively time-consuming.
—Steven Johnson, New York Times, 17 May 2024
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“Time-consuming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/time-consuming. Accessed 31 May. 2024.
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