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to devote serious and sustained effort
the young lawyer labored most of the weekend over the difficult legal brief
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Recent Examples of labored
Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
And labored breathing in dogs could be a sign of heat exhaustion or heat stroke.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2024
By December 1826, Beethoven was quite ill, suffering from a second bout of jaundice and swollen limbs, fever, dropsy, and labored breathing.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 May 2024
Those who find Lanthimos’s labored eccentricities and cutesy cruelty amusing will presumably like this movie, too.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 24 May 2024
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Some signs to watch out for include frantic panting, extreme salivation and labored breathing, according to the American Kennel Club.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
And labored breathing in dogs could be a sign of heat exhaustion or heat stroke.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2024
By December 1826, Beethoven was quite ill, suffering from a second bout of jaundice and swollen limbs, fever, dropsy, and labored breathing.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 May 2024
Those who find Lanthimos’s labored eccentricities and cutesy cruelty amusing will presumably like this movie, too.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 24 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for labored
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The lifelong New Yorker explained his decision to pack up for Florida in a 2019 post on the social platform X, citing taxes and his strained relationships with state and local leaders.Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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In addition, there will need to be some serious operational improvements to remedy the company’s strained relationship with many current and former customers.Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2024
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Many works struggled to meet their high estimates.Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
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But Minnesota has struggled, for the most part, to turn pressure into sacks this season.Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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To update all this for the present, there are some contrived explanations — the girls made the burn book during a period in middle school where their teachers banned phone use — as well as a heavy ladling of references to the internet.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
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Worse still, if the negation of the axiom of choice were true, there wouldn’t just be a few (very contrived) examples of sets that can’t be measured—the whole theory of measurement would collapse!Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
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The storm wrought a level of destruction on western North Carolina not seen for over 100 years.Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
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Hey, a similar approach worked for the oil and gas sector, which is on track for a dramatic reduction in methane pollution by 2030.Nick Rockel, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
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According to Michigan law, an automatic recount is triggered in statewide races if the margin between the top two candidates is 2,000 votes or less.Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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State lawmakers recently expanded the threshold to trigger an automatic recount.Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Israeli authorities have caused a forced displacement of Palestinian people in Gaza to an extent that constitutes war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday.Reuters, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Abbott avoids this by allowing its characters to simply exist without turning situations into a forced anthropological presentation.Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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Unlike her wryly astute essays, the playwright scarcely reckons with the thorny nuances of mourning, and instead settles for a rather pat depiction of grief.Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
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But while the message is pat, the way it’s presented is poignant, thanks to an arresting lead performance from Gong, who manages a tricky balance of chilliness and charm.Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
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Most of the work is in surface upgrades to flooring finishes, kitchenettes and parking transitions and in the mechanical work and changing out the lobby and reception area.Jennifer Castenson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Bernard says the fantastical ideas dreamed up by the house foster new mechanical achievements.Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2024
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“Labored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/labored. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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