labor
noun
productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
am laboring
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present progressiveof labor (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“I am laboring industriously to undeceive the people,” one optimistic officer wrote from Arkansas.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
"I am laboring under very violent emotion," the old man quavered.
From Time Magazine Archive
I wish I could send additional force to occupy Loudon, but my means are short of the wants of each division I am laboring to protect.
From The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis
My dear boy," said he, in a voice broken by emotion, "a day or two back you saw something of the trouble that I am laboring under.
From The Champdoce Mystery by Émile Gaboriau
If God is not in it, then I am laboring under hallucination.
From Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) by Elizabeth Ware Pearson
