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Hey man, I'm just gonna point out why the examples don't provide constraints. I'm surprised you didn't realize this, seeing as you're intimately familiar with the operation of a dictionary. Under the first definition:

> an arduous task

And let's take a look back to the post to which you originally replied!

> but the post above explain an arduous process

Wow, those look really similar, don't they? The quoted usage you find so objectionable is /nearly identical/ to the example you yourself copied. Galaxy brain.

Here's another definition you might want to study. It will really help reduce your confusion with internet interactions:

Hyperbole (noun) > extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones")

I truly believe once you internalize this information you will grasp where you went wrong.



> you will grasp where you went wrong.

Beginning a back and forth over how to use a dictionary with someone who defines how to use a dictionary after the fact to help their point?

> Galaxy brain.

This is not Reddit or Twitter, please refrain from such petty, openly disrespectful and, shall we say arduous, slurs.


It is very telling to me that you first chose to ignore the definition I provided, and now you have chosen to ignore how your example was demonstrably self-destructive. You're grasping desperately for straws by focusing on everything not inconvenient for your initial point.

I'll take that as an admission you know you're wrong.

Here's some more advice for ya: Do your homework next time and come prepared. Or maybe, just maybe, don't try to play the pedantic card. It's clearly not your best game.




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