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Recent Examples of time-consuming
Patients often wait until the doctor is standing up to leave before blurting out their real concern, which is typically a sensitive or time-consuming problem, such as wanting to start birth control, having painful periods, or worrying about pregnancy or STDs.
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Dr. Jill Grimes, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
At the very least, the government can mire the university in many costly and time-consuming investigations.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Mayor Ellen Kamei said the goal is to simplify the costly and time-consuming process currently required to select a partner, rather than to stop working with nonprofit developers altogether.
—Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
The likelihood of children having long-term complications that require expensive or time-consuming medical care and resources increases; stress on parents, caregivers and local hospitals builds and, in the worst case, children die or become permanently disabled.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
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Dr. Jill Grimes, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
At the very least, the government can mire the university in many costly and time-consuming investigations.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Mayor Ellen Kamei said the goal is to simplify the costly and time-consuming process currently required to select a partner, rather than to stop working with nonprofit developers altogether.
—Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
The likelihood of children having long-term complications that require expensive or time-consuming medical care and resources increases; stress on parents, caregivers and local hospitals builds and, in the worst case, children die or become permanently disabled.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for time-consuming
nonautomatic
Adjective
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That leaves the 40 percent of the budget that is discretionary spending (i.e., nonautomatic spending that Congress appropriates).—
Timothy Noah,
The New Republic,
1 Feb. 2023
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On two separate occasions within the last decade, Blum and his attorneys argued that the University of Texas was placing too much weight on race in nonautomatic admissions.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
30 Aug. 2019
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“Time-consuming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/time-consuming. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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