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Word: tediousness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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Through these narratives, Bose is able to assert his claim that global unity through trade, travel, and immigration are not solely due to the efforts of Europe and the West. Though the writing may be tedious at times, the topic and thesis of “A Hundred Horizons” is refreshing...

Author: By Andrew A. Durtschi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: As the Indian Ocean Globalized | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

...wants to adopt your child!" And once the press got involved everyone said, Oh God, now we better cross our t's and dot our i's to make sure we actually aren't jumping queues, because we're going to be scrutinized. So the process became extremely tedious and the court dates kept changing and we kept getting conflicting information. It became so difficult that every day I thought, "OK, forget it. We'll find a family here to look after him." Meanwhile I had been given permission to take him to my hotel because I had to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Empress Strikes Back | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...suggested they have his nephew describe the inside of his home in Ann Arbor or that the kidnappers photograph the soldier holding a current newspaper. He said he wanted to see proof by Saturday, Nov. 4, at noon. "I decided there had to be a deadline for these tedious negotiations," says Qanbar. "You don't want to play by the rules of the kidnappers all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Ransom Demand for the Missing U.S. Soldier | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

With the midterm elections rapidly approaching, students active in the Dems organization jump at the opportunity to help out with various campaigns—even if it means tedious phone calls without any compensation or an uncomfortable bus ride out to Rhode Island with only HUDS bagels for sustenance...

Author: By Alyssa N. Wolff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard's Blue and Red Rev Up for Nov. 7 | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

...never heard of, Xavier Beauvois, and it is, at least superficially, a policier of the kind the French are particularly good at - a lot of cops in leather jackets, cigarettes dangling from their lips, making weary wisecracks as they go about their grim and often tedious business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Confusing Imaginary Life and a Tense Police Drama | 9/22/2006 | See Source »

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