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With two flagships already in the works and ahead of a Uranus mission in the queue, NASA’s planetary science division is laboring under an enormous amount of budgetary stress.

From Scientific American • Mar. 30, 2023

It’s taking place in Washington, D.C., where Representative Kevin McCarthy of California is laboring mightily to become speaker of the House — a job he has long coveted.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2022

The novel hangs together best — and is at its funniest — when Buckley sticks with the preposterous screenplay that our hero is laboring on, his vehicle for facing his fear of death.

From Washington Post • Sep. 4, 2022

The club is laboring in 13th place in the 18-team league and has little hope of reaching the European qualification places it has long targeted.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2022

Nothing could hasten more the progress of these reflections & sentiments which are secretly undermining the institution which this mistaken zeal is laboring to secure agst. the most distant approach of danger.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis