• Its near-spherical wheels spin on some complicated gimbal system, allowing it to hang a sharp left without describing anything as tedious as a curve.

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  • Each episode of the show has twists, but sometimes a twisty road can make for a more tedious trip than a straight one.

    NEWYORKER: Northwest Noir

  • Though staging a new race is a huge challenge, Tamarro is an experienced organizer of 10Ks, so he knew how to calibrate the mileage, a tedious exercise that requires riding a bike and counting notches on a clicker.

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  • There's no denying this: Tracking what you paid for each share of a stock or mutual fund--so you can calculate your taxable gain when you sell--is so tedious that a lot of folks just guess.

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  • The man paid in cold hard cash, and after a tedious 40 minute purchase process that involved a bit of activation, some nice tutorials, a quick address book sideload from his old Touch Diamond and whole lot of peripheral upsell, Alfredo was one of the world's first satisfied Pre customers.

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  • "Sometimes it is a very tedious process and it takes a great deal of time sometimes for information to turn out to be fruitful, " said Colonel John Perrone, a former joint detention commander at the camp.

    BBC: No fast track at Guantanamo Bay

  • Like the Kobo, the Story HD can also zoom in and pan PDFs -- the process is a little tedious, but it's a handy feature nonetheless.

    ENGADGET: iRiver Story HD review

  • It's a tedious job--reading information off scanned-in images of forms then punching it into a database running on a mainframe computer.

    FORBES: The human factor

  • The method of disclosure in numerous separate files makes it a rather time-consuming and tedious business to compile a comprehensive overview across government over a long period, but the material is there.

    BBC: Is a wedding a meeting? What about a slumber party?

  • Sarcasm and disdain may work in a 500-word opinion piece in a newspaper but they become tedious over 500 pages of a book.

    ECONOMIST: Terrorism

  • Or was there some innocent explanation, a tedious problem with data collection for example?

    BBC: A magnifying glass on top of a fingerprint

  • Forest had plenty of possession but created little - particularly in a tedious opening half.

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  • Looking for Ukrainian politicians and officials who have never broken the law is a tedious and thankless task.

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  • Monitoring Internet traffic is a tedious and time-consuming affair that will only become more difficult as the volume increases.

    ECONOMIST: China and the Internet

  • An intensive three-year academic course may be just the ticket for one person, but a tedious waste of time for another.

    ECONOMIST: Universities

  • But this is a tedious process, and one not likely to succeed.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Although Mr Portillo has never embellished his original confession, he has woven this part of his biography into a tedious narrative of personal self-discovery.

    ECONOMIST: He who hesitates laughs last?

  • But it scans only one line of text at a time, which makes for a tedious process even after you get the hang of it.

    CNN: Pen scanner reads, translates

  • Pointless, tedious waiting in a crowded cage with dead roaches and no running water, where officers processing you through the system laugh at your discomfort and fear.

    CNN: My arrest at Occupy Wall Street

  • For years biologists made DNA in a tedious process that involved copying thousands of DNA molecules and checking them for errors by putting them back into cells.

    FORBES: Drew Endy aims to reinvent the biotechnology industry.

  • But most of those caviling for the budget to be balanced on the backs of our troops are not interested in such a tedious and time-consuming exercise.

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  • "Previously if aircraft wanted to climb or reroute, it was a tedious process and controllers often didn't have time, " said Dennis Addison, support manager for FAA's Oakland center.

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  • Until now, researchers wishing to do that have been forced to play a tedious game of pick-up-sticks, selecting the semiconducting nanotubes one by one and then sticking them in place with glue.

    ECONOMIST: Monitor

  • It's a tedious process, but fairly reliable.

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  • Big firms worry that if they were left with audit alone, which for most people is a tedious task, their ability to recruit talented staff would evaporate and they might as well hand the job to a government agency.

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  • The second conversation (also a tedious repeat from April) is about our own standards for coaching behavior and whether or not we are softening as if the controversies roiling Rutgers are less a matter of out-of-line coaches and more a function of society's thinning skin.

    WSJ: Jason Gay: What If Rutgers Is Everyone?

  • It follows a tedious ritual.

    ECONOMIST: Banyan

  • As soon as new matches are consecrated, they're replaced. (How quickly Sunday's thriller vaporized Djokovic's five-set semi over Murray and Nadal's four-setter over Federer, not to mention Victoria Azarenka's 6-3, 6-0 rout of Maria Sharapova in the women's final.) The torrent of great tennis has undermined the old fear that the game would unravel with new technology, that it would become a tedious game of baseline heavy hitting.

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  • Ms Noonan sometimes tries to be over-inventive (there is a rather tedious dream sequence about Hollywood fund-raisers).

    ECONOMIST: Washington, Babylon?

  • Until recently, IT professionals have been stuck with a fairly tedious job description.

    FORBES

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