1
as in to emphasize
to speak or write about insistently and usually tiresomely
stop belaboring the fact that they're already in debt
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2
as in to attack
to criticize harshly and usually publicly
there's no need to belabor other people's flaws when you're hardly perfect yourself
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3
as in to lick
to strike repeatedly
with a whip he belabored a horse almost to the point of death
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Not to belabor the point, but why does NYU have a UAE campus?
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Brian T. Allen, National Review, 14 Dec. 2023
Without belaboring the comparison, Runciman elaborates a case for the state, which binds human reason in a lattice of rules and procedures, as an algorithmic device.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
Tennessee Titans coach Mike Vrabel said something on Monday that would seem to be belaboring the obvious.
—Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 14 Sep. 2023
The looming courtroom showdown is poised to push his insistence that election fraud occurred in 2020 toward the center of the 2024 presidential campaign, a dismaying prospect for Republicans and some of Trump’s advisers who have urged him to stop belaboring that subject.
—Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey and Michael Scherer, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
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Brian T. Allen, National Review, 14 Dec. 2023
Without belaboring the comparison, Runciman elaborates a case for the state, which binds human reason in a lattice of rules and procedures, as an algorithmic device.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
Tennessee Titans coach Mike Vrabel said something on Monday that would seem to be belaboring the obvious.
—Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 14 Sep. 2023
The looming courtroom showdown is poised to push his insistence that election fraud occurred in 2020 toward the center of the 2024 presidential campaign, a dismaying prospect for Republicans and some of Trump’s advisers who have urged him to stop belaboring that subject.
—Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey and Michael Scherer, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
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