laboriously

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The garden's collection has been laboriously reassembled after it had perished during World War II -- through decades of purchases, exchanges and numerous scientific missions that took Ivannikov's senior colleagues across several continents.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

We are more representative of what chasing that dream actually looks like, because we’re laboriously doing it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

The list of phrases has grown manually and laboriously to more than 5000 known “fingerprints” of potential misconduct.

From Science Magazine • May 31, 2024

Plus, it would be easier to just tie a rope around the stones, rather than laboriously chisel out a hole.

From Slate • Nov. 11, 2023

Her one trip upstairs on Sundays was to change out of her good dress, so she’d be on the couch the rest of the day, napping or laboriously reading the Sunday paper.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson