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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of belabor.

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Examples

  • Every issue that belabors the black community, drugs, obesity, sexual identity, every single concern of the humanists who worry about the physical and spiritual health of our country are here addressed.

    Gwen Davis: Talent Will Save Us Gwen Davis 2010

  • Complain though we may about "Saturday Night Live," the show is still the greatest training ground for comic talent around -- and Monday night's special belabors the obvious with inarguably entertaining results.

    Tom Shales reviews tonight's retrospecial,'The Women of "Saturday Night Live"' Tom Shales 2010

  • The actors work too hard at their Brooklyn accents and Miller belabors his point, but he at least demonstrates the craft to do it poetically and smoothly.

    The Witty Bits of a Play Paul Levy 2011

  • But Ms. Hustvedt rarely belabors the theme—this brisk, ebullient novel is a potpourri of poems, diary entries, emails and quicksilver self-analysis: "My own head was a storehouse of multiloquy, the flux de mots of myriad contrarians who argued and debated and skewered one another with mordant parley."

    What the Nanny Saw; the Trouble With Men Sam Sacks 2011

  • There is a nice message about the perils of wanting to be popular and its consequences, but Lowe belabors it, addressing it repetitively, repeating it over and over get the point! making the book seem like one of those not-very-special After School Specials.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Paul 2010

  • There is a nice message about the perils of wanting to be popular and its consequences, but Lowe belabors it, addressing it repetitively, repeating it over and over get the point! making the book seem like one of those not-very-special After School Specials.

    Young Adult Spotlight: "Never Slow Dance with a Zombie" by E. Van Lowe (Tor) Paul 2010

  • Downey dazzles, gear creaks; 'Mother and Child' belabors adoption's impact.

    'Iron Man 2': Rust Never Sleeps 2010

  • Every issue that belabors the black community, drugs, obesity, sexual identity, every single concern of the humanists who worry about the physical and spiritual health of our country are here addressed.

    Gwen Davis: Talent Will Save Us Gwen Davis 2010

  • "It belabors the obvious to say Arab-Iranian relations are complicated," John Limbert wrote Wednesday in Foreign Policy in an essay discussing the outcome of cables leaked by WikiLeaks that paint a frosty picture of relations between the leaders of Arab states and their Iranian neighbor:

    Arabian vs. Persian: Iranians take to U.S. Navy's Facebook to protest 'Arabian Gulf' Melissa Bell 2010

  • Once again Keller belabors the superficial and the obvious to the exclusion of any understanding of the understanding of the business of the legislature.

    Democracy and the Senate 2009

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