1
as in to emphasize
to speak or write about insistently and usually tiresomely
stop belaboring the fact that they're already in debt
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2
as in to attack
to criticize harshly and usually publicly
there's no need to belabor other people's flaws when you're hardly perfect yourself
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3
as in to lick
to strike repeatedly
with a whip he belabored a horse almost to the point of death
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Recent Examples of belabor
The civil trial between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively has been postponed for two months, belaboring an already laborious process.
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Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
The stereotype of constructing the culture of a program in the mirror image of the head coach is belabored throughout every college football season.
—Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Its instructions are vague, its arguments belabored and its absurdist fables too plentiful.
—Book Marks
october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Because—to belabor this point—space itself is expanding, and that changes everything.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2025
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Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
The stereotype of constructing the culture of a program in the mirror image of the head coach is belabored throughout every college football season.
—Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Its instructions are vague, its arguments belabored and its absurdist fables too plentiful.
—Book Marks
october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Because—to belabor this point—space itself is expanding, and that changes everything.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for belabor
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The new food pyramid emphasizes full-fat dairy, Mokari said.—
Madeline Holcombe,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
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The researchers emphasize that the system is designed to detect mechanical stress only.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
8 Feb. 2026
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Mobs attacked television vans and set cars ablaze as overrun hospitals struggled to cope with scores of injured people.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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The complication is not well understood but appears to be the result of the virus prompting the immune system to attack a certain protein that some brain cells produce.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2026
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Mitch West, meanwhile, was licking his wounds on Monday night, when snow still hadn’t touched down in his region of South Carolina.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
28 Jan. 2026
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England’s Test team are still licking their wounds after their humbling Down Under.—
Sam Dalling,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2026
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As the Sentinel’s Cristobal Reyes has reported, federal judges based in Orlando have scolded prosecutors multiple times in recent weeks for detaining people who should have been set free, with one judge memorably comparing the current actions of ICE to those of a third-world country.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Feb. 2026
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Young kids paddled near the shallow edges and bigger kids jumped off the cliffs above the swimming hole, causing the adults to gasp and scold.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
4 Feb. 2026
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The southern Portuguese city of Alcacer do Sal, about 60 miles from Lisbon, was battling rising waters from the river Sado, with downtown areas flooded and water levels measuring roughly 7 feet high in some places.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Feb. 2026
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For people that are not tracking what that actually means, that means that ICE can do almost no arrests in the entire country … If a court rules that there’s a final order of removal, they’re removed actually by an administrative warrant, not a judicial warrant.—
Morgan Chalfant,
semafor.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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Trump took to social media during the big game’s second half to slam Bad Bunny.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
11 Feb. 2026
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The parents of the three Miami Yacht Club summer campers who were killed last summer when a 60-foot barge slammed into their sailboat sued the company that owns the barge, alleging negligence and irresponsible hiring.—
Milena Malaver,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Feb. 2026
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This means that bills get hearings, debates happen in public, and legislators are required to vote on issues instead of hiding behind process.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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Maybe Mark Kelly and several other dissident members of Congress are hiding the sun in a big bag.—
Alexandra Petri,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2026
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To do so would be rude, politically perilous, insulting to our biggest trade partner and just plain weird.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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Even if their tastes differ from yours, true friends shouldn’t insult your honest self-expression.—
Tarot.com,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Belabor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belabor. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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