How To Use Effortful In A Sentence
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As characterized by Vargha-Khadem's team, the affected KE's speech is effortful, “sometimes agrammatical and often unintelligible” (Watkins et al. 2002: 453), and shows impairments not just in morphosyntax (e.g., regular plural and past tense endings) but also in the formation of irregular past tenses
Innateness and Language
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Eventually, through practice, it becomes automatic and less effortful.
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Not unexpected, but nonetheless a depressing shroud on an effortfully terminal evening.
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The family are keen attenders at St Agnes Catholic Church, and Papa's piety is effortful and ostentatious.
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You have remembered this — albeit effortfully — yet forgotten how to calculate radius.
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This is gratifying - but simultaneously confirms the intensely effortful nature of this lark.
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The youth begin to fill the high street: loud, bouncy and effortfully up for it, or for something.
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But earlier he sounds effortful and strained, especially high up.
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I am increasingly aware of how effortful and messy our regular suppers are.
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Contrived conversations between the new consul and various dignitaries also effortfully attempt to provide context.
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The child self-regulatory competence scale include the effortful control concept of Rothbart and self-regulatory development.
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This is effortfully the worst place in the world.
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Diplomacy and its close relation, effortful crowd-pleasing, are both overrated.
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Simple in theory, effortful in practice, and the most valuable, meaningful commodity in the world.
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I hear there is a magical place of ease of grace of flowingness where one's mind is like water one's desk is, like, clean and shit gets done by the bucketload without the effort ever feeling effortful.
Communicatrix
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Research is cited that supposedly shows that readers are vulnerable to a kind of cognitive incaution and "must engage in effortful processing to disbelieve the information they encounter in literary narratives.
Saying Something
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As characterized by Vargha-Khadem's team, the affected KE's speech is effortful, “sometimes agrammatical and often unintelligible” (Watkins et al. 2002: 453), and shows impairments not just in morphosyntax (e.g., regular plural and past tense endings) but also in the formation of irregular past tenses
Innateness and Language
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Pudding was banana and tonka something, an effortful conundrum of banana-flavoured stuff, again made with exhaustive care.
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What others do on automatic pilot becomes a tiresome, anxious, effortful task.
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Her effortful singing in her big solo is the prime disappointment.
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The cast sometimes struggle to navigate it, hopping effortfully between the cuboid platforms.
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We are not into all this forceful, effortful, yippy, yappy, living-and-winning-at-any-cost stuff.
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They're opulent, suggestible and effortfully sophisticated, but more importantly, they are not just wishful thinking.
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To the degree that this device contributes to the broader popular perception that ‘literature’ is pretentious, faddish, vague, eventless, effortful, and suffocatingly interior, quotation marks may not be quite as tiny as they appear on the page.
2008 November 18 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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Mutual life insurance company pembroke up from his commiseration horrifyingly, the spatially of a anastigmatic cicadidae preservative circumscribed his penuchle a effortful windaus.
Rational Review
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Running was never effortful: it meant only freedom.
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This is a very uncomfortable, overdesigned space that seems effortfully oldfashioned.
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What others do on automatic pilot becomes a tiresome, anxious, effortful task.
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Not only a will-be expert must do effortful study, she must do it consistently for long, long period of time.
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No worse by day than the lusty priming of a neglected hand pump, at night the donkey's bray assumes the apocalyptic aural agony of hell's rusted gates being effortfully forced ajar.
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The second sentence flows smoothly but contains the wonderfully effortful word strainedly.
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