laboriously

adverb

1
as in actively
in a manner involving great or constant activity working laboriously late into the night in order to meet the deadline

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2
as in hard
with great effort or determination the farmer laboriously pruned all season long to produce the finest crop of grapes possible

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Recent Examples of laboriously For starters, pulling it off requires running a computer script alongside the game, laboriously entering each round of color feedback into a separate application. — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 17 June 2026 Each was a career politician who spent decades laboriously climbing the government rungs before being elected governor. — Mark Barabak, Mercury News, 13 May 2026 There is no need to laboriously clean and sand the walls before priming, per Johnson. — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 29 Dec. 2025 With buckets and mops, Palestinians laboriously scooped water out of their tents. — Arkansas Online, 12 Dec. 2025 Set in 1970 suburban Massachusetts, Reichardt's take on the heist genre saw O'Connor laboriously heaving art through a hay barn to comedic effect. — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 28 Nov. 2025 The now 6-2 Patriots started slow, laboriously taking a 9-7 lead into halftime against the Browns. — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025 The technology is rapidly replacing the old days of crime-scene investigators crafting hand sketches and using tape measures to laboriously take down measurements. — Sean Emery, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2025 Instead of laboriously testing compounds one by one in wet labs or waiting weeks for physics simulations to finish, scientists can now triage molecules digitally at supercomputer scale. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for laboriously
  1. actively
  2. hard
  3. diligently
  4. intensively
  5. arduously
  6. intensely
  7. intently
  8. purposefully
Adverb
  • The contract award is the latest in a range of initiatives HII is actively engaged in to advance the AUKUS partnership.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
  • To find out whether this activity could be improved, the researchers identified amino acids that were in close proximity to the active site of the protease, but not actively involved with the catalysis.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of actively
Adverb
  • And even DeVonta Smith, who made his return from injury Sunday, landed hard in the fourth quarter and appeared to be shaken up.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The Capricorn Moon squares the Sun in your sign, making private responsibilities or family dynamics harder to tune out.
    — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of hard
Adverb
  • Organizations like the American Library Association have diligently kept track of banning efforts.
    — Naveen Basavaraj, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2026
  • On that day, Skoloda, Pasek, and others had diligently practiced constructing the Norwegian reeve, along with other rigging arrangements.
    — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of diligently
Adverb
  • Newsom, by contrast, may need to begin campaigning intensively after leaving office rather than wait for Harris’s decision.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The pork producers group has also intensively lobbied for legislation called the Save Our Bacon Act, which would overturn the state laws.
    — Kenny Torrella, Vox, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of intensively
Adverb
  • Rudi Schreiner, a cofounder of the company, originally hoped to include El Banco but had to cut the town from the itinerary due to the Magdalena's arduously bendy approach to the riverside village.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026
  • After an arduously long winter, these narrow, modestly sized shops have been—with a suddenness and intensity that only TikTok and Instagram can foment—thronged.
    — David Kamp, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Definition of arduously
Adverb
  • Coordinating all of his department heads and units in prep allowed Vanselow to focus more intensely on performance during the actual shoot, which paid off not only in terms of Neeson’s work but that of the supporting cast.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Zaid’s home is bombed in one intensely melodramatic sequence that culminates in a slow zoom over Zaid cradling his dead wife and child.
    — Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of intensely
Adverb
  • The group listens intently as a symphony of airplanes, freeway traffic and the ploop!
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Acuña was tended to for several minutes by the Braves trainer, with Weiss looking on intently, before heading straight to the home clubhouse.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of intently
Adverb
  • This individual asset is often referred to as zest, and it can be purposefully developed to assist us in managing daily stressors as well as creating meaningful lives.
    — Joan M. Cook, Time, 17 Oct. 2026
  • However, Rob Shuter is reporting that Meghan believes Kate purposefully humiliated her by recently taking Princess Charlotte on the London Underground.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of purposefully

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“Laboriously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laboriously. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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