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herculean
/ ˌɜːʊˈːə /
adjective
- requiring tremendous effort, strength, etc
a herculean task
- sometimes capital resembling Hercules in strength, courage, etc
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of herculean1
Example Sentences
Getting there required a herculean effort, the Dodgers digging out of a big early hole that had been entirely of their own making.
If, as reports suggest, a minerals agreement isn't enough to win the Trump administration over, a herculean diplomatic effort will be required as well.
And while groups such as the Ocean Conservancy sent letters to Newsom and CalRecycle, congratulating them on the herculean achievement, industry stakeholders were quietly sending a very different message: Hold off.
On the contrary, building these products and moving their supply chains all to one country requires herculean selection, coordination and monitoring of expert suppliers from different parts of the world.
“It is a herculean work,” says geneticist Jorge Dubcovsky of the University of California, Davis, who wasn’t involved in the study.
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