belabor

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(Again, to belabor, a historian or anthropologist might be into what people, given their Moon Laser, chose to write, but that's not your problem).

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  1. transitive verb To attack with blows; hit, beat, or whip. See Synonyms at beat.
  2. transitive verb To assail verbally.
  3. transitive verb To discuss repeatedly or at length; harp on: Don't belabor the point.

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  • CodyH, not to belabor the point, but you did initially suggest that the error was mine. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • So excuse me if I belabor the point, because it's an important one. —  Suzie-Q
  • Twitter feed, but I'm not going to belabor that point, because if I see one more story about Twitter in the mainstream media, my head is going to explode.
  • Since I'm confident every vendor made this point in their post-conference evaluations, I won't belabor it here. —  WordPress.com News
  • I'm not going to belabor the findings other than to say that the enhanced information did have effects, and in fact the enhanced information attenuated African Americans 'desire for life-prolonging treatments in the setting of a terminal illness. —  Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog
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