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onerous

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Onerous (adj) means needing a lot of effort to deal with; heavy or demanding.

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Needing a lot of effort to deal with; heavy or demanding.

"People with diabetes mellitus rely predominantly on finger pricking to measure blood levels of glucose, which can be onerous." — , A novel system for non-invasive measurement of blood levels of glucose (2024)

"The striker's job was onerous, too, because there was so little "give" in the metal, and the perpetual jarring was indeed trying to the muscles." — , Some Memories of Crewe Works—III (1945)

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