as in hard
with great effort or determination
arduously made their way through the dense jungle
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arduously
Adverb
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When daylight savings ends next week, dragging yourself out of bed will likely feel even harder.—
Christopher Murray
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27 Oct. 2025 -
But economists say recruiting young people will get harder nationwide as smaller families continue to transform the American population.—
Sarah McCammon,
NPR,
27 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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While many companies initially invested diligently in their AI teams and development, the technology has sometimes led to those exact roles being deemed unnecessary.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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This self-emptying Shark robot vacuum has powerful suction and mopping capabilities, and works diligently to clean small spaces like under your bed or couch.—
Alanna Martine Kilkeary,
Glamour,
17 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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And managers are reluctant to crack down too intensively.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2025
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Leyla’s was a Frenchman, an art collector twice her age, who picked her up in one of Moscow’s posh night clubs and began to educate her intensively.—
Julia Ioffe,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Make sure to eat a balanced diet and get adequate calories when exercising intensely.—
Wendy Wisner,
Health,
24 Oct. 2025
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Bottles may feature a variety of whole, colorful peppers, and the flavor is more acidic than intensely spicy.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
22 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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People listen to you intently today.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
19 Oct. 2025
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The Reluctant Traveler, listening intently as the heir to the throne opens up like never before.—
Erin Hill,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The technology is rapidly replacing the old days of crime-scene investigators crafting hand sketches and using tape measures to laboriously take down measurements.—
Sean Emery,
Oc Register,
30 Aug. 2025
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Instead of laboriously testing compounds one by one in wet labs or waiting weeks for physics simulations to finish, scientists can now triage molecules digitally at supercomputer scale.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The novelist Adam Johnson is not a writer of that doggedly persistent kind.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
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Packages of flying tortillas thrown at the wrong time, or pocket knives, would only hurt a reputation that Texas Tech has worked doggedly to change and show that the Red Raiders are at home on a national stage, and not the crazy drunk uncle ruining a holiday.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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For long-haul trips, consider the Southern Hemisphere for a jolt of vitamin D in a rugged, determinedly uncommercial spot, or take a dip in a memorable, albeit temporary, Japanese onsen.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
20 Oct. 2025
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Two years on from the attacks, October 7 is an opportunity to recognize that authoritarianism is no longer creeping onward but rather marching determinedly.—
Aviva Klompas,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Arduously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arduously. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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