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boring — especially because something goes on too long or without variation
- Slowly, carefully, for eight tedious hours I inched away the inflamed left hemisphere of Maranda's brain.p. 146.3
- The 17 hours of laborious, tedious, painstaking operating on such tiny patients had progressed well, all things considered.p. 7.9
- I could handle lengthy operations because while training under Dr. Long, I had learned his philosophy and techniques, which included how to keep going, hour after tedious hour, without yielding to fatigue.p. 130.5
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