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They argue that onerous regulation is driving business from the city.onerous = requiring significant effort
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My duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests.onerous = difficult
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The insubstantial frost feathers ensured that those last twenty feet remained hard, scary, onerous. (source)
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Ron and Hermione's prefect duties also became more and more onerous as Christmas approached. (source)
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While other states have caps of more than a million dollars, and many have no cap at all, several states impose onerous eligibility requirements. (source)
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And if what you come up with is stupidly onerous we're going to ignore it. (source)
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She would never know how deeply he had longed to free himself all these years, how he had stayed with her only because he knew she would be lost otherwise, how onerous it had been to go on and on, day after day, setting right what he had done wrong. (source)onerous = difficult
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'Twas ostensibly ominous in the overview To be 'orribly and onerously overrun.† (source)
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There is nothing more onerous than enforced gratitude.† (source)
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And 'orribly and onerously overrun?† (source)
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The milk of the poppy, for when the pain grows too onerous.† (source)
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Proceed at haste and speed and celerity, without delay, diversion or divagation to Dunkirk for the purposes of immediate evacuation on account of being 'orribly and onerously overrun from all directions.† (source)
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But as long as the task is both onerous and repetitive, I discovered, the mind is not only free to wander to more imaginative climes, it actually flees to higher planes.† (source)
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She worked better and faster than the slave woman who had taken over much of old Mary's sewing—and if she had an enemy on the plantation, it was that woman, Liza, who was now in danger of being sent to more onerous work.† (source)
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For these guys, the concept carried many onerous responsibilities.† (source)
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She leaned against him in an agony of loathing, belching alcohol; his rigidity suggested that her weight was onerous; and they climbed the short steps to the door.† (source)
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