For the next two years one MIT academic in particular, Roland Pellenq, played what amounted to a really tedious video game.

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We can always replace equipment, we can always replace reagents, we can even replace mice, but replacing an experiment that took you two years to complete is really tedious.

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"When you make an album, you realize that really fast songs are tedious upon repeated listen, " she tells Steve Inskeep.

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This may sound tedious, but I find it really fun.

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The work -- the inspection work that they're doing is slow and tedious and very sophisticated work, and it really requires a lot of patience on everyone's behalf, really, because really what they have to do is piece together a number of clues.

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If everything that goes wrong is the fault of a secret cabal, that relieves you of the tedious necessity of trying to understand how a complex world really works.

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The game can feel tedious at times, especially during its early moments where some of the questing really does end up feeling too grindy.

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