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Examples of labored
labored
After a four-pitch first inning, he labored at times but allowed minimal damage.
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Ballet dancers were credited with 18 months of work for every year they labored.
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The studio has labored hard to keep the central premise of the film under wraps.
From the charlotteobserver.com
They labored long hours, doing difficult work, often under miserable conditions.
From the thenewstribune.com
Renteria grounded out in his only plate appearance and labored running to first.
From the heraldtribune.com
As a manager, he had labored in the obscurity of the minor leagues for 13 years.
From the time.com
Clancy was an untapped talent who labored in Kuechly's shadow for three seasons.
From the bostonherald.com
This is done with modest brevity rather than in a labored and didactic fashion.
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As Minnis and the Shockers labored early, Kansas starter Thomas Taylor thrived.
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- Lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating"
- Heavy: requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"
- (labor) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
- (labor) tug: strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"
- (labor) productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
- (labor) work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
- (Labor (area)) There are a number of Spanish units of measurement of length or area that are now virtually obsolete. They include the vara, the cordel, the league and the labor. The units of area used to express the area of land are still encountered in some transactions in land today. ...
- (Labor (economics)) Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the market for labour. Labour markets function through the interaction of workers and employers. ...
- (Labor (physiology)) Childbirth (also called labour, birth, partus or parturition) is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the birth of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus. ...
