painstaking
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People still marvel at Miyazaki’s handcrafted backgrounds and his painstaking dedication to balancing its feather-light score with the melodies of flowing water or the gentle crunch of a child’s footfalls on grass and gravel.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Three weeks after the bombing, the Daily News reported that investigators “admit that thousands of hours of painstaking work have not put them on the track of anyone who could be called a likely suspect.”
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Rescuers from seven countries -- Venezuela, Chile, the United States, Portugal, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Mexico -- were involved in the painstaking operation.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Scroll through TikTok for long enough and you'll find short films about fictional relationships, with painstaking fan edits, imagined future storylines, AI-generated posters and millions of comments debating them as if they're real.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
And yet...through painstaking work, day after day, the cryptographers at Arlington Hall began to pick up fragmented meanings in the Soviet cables.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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