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For months, my classmates and I have worked diligently on backbreaking SAT prep.
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It came together after a backbreaking loss to Staley in last year's title game.
From the stltoday.com
Cal's loss to UCLA was made all the more backbreaking given the circumstances.
From the thenewstribune.com
Take Malkin's setup of Ruslan Fedotenko for the backbreaking fourth goal Saturday.
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Tiling a patio can be a backbreaking job, although the results will be spectacular.
From the dailyherald.com
Costs like that are backbreaking for a non-profit small group like ourselves.
From the halesowennews.co.uk
Clearing trees and starting crops on virgin fields was harsh and backbreaking work.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Still, the morning air is mild enough to get it done, and the work isn't backbreaking.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Shrum survived backbreaking work building a road through the jungle for the Japanese.
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- Arduous: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
- A backbreaker refers to professional wrestling moves which see a wrestler dropping an opponent so that the opponent's back impacts or is bent backwards against a part of the wrestler's body, usually the knee. ...
- (Backbreaker (video game)) Backbreaker is an American football video game, developed by British technology developer NaturalMotion, released on 1 June 2010 in North America and 25 June 2010 in Europe. ...
- Backbreaks is a Mars ILL album released in 2005.
- Of work, very physically tiring
- (backbreakingly) In a backbreaking manner
- (Backbreak) Large fragments or blocks of unblasted material dislodged into the muck pile requiring secondary sizing or breaking.
- (Backbreaker) n. a trick shot where the stick is held by both hands above the head and the ball is shot underhand and behind the back AND between the legs.
