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painstakingly





ADVERB
laboriously
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ADVERB
painfully
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Painstakingly cataloging the associated patterns of neuronal activity is simply beyond the reach of contemporary neuroscience.

From Slate • Jun. 26, 2023

Painstakingly committing the tiniest details of scores to memory, Mitropoulos seemed not to direct music but to emanate and embody it, fists flailing and feet flying.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2022

Painstakingly slow, overly bureaucratic, and often edging into darkly comedic are common descriptions of foreigners and foreign-born Taiwanese, like Ms Chou, when they encounter Taiwan's banking industry for the first time.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2022

Painstakingly, the JET team worked out what was going on.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 9, 2022

Painstakingly, she put a dot of glue on each of the scraps and pressed each one into its place on one of her precious few remaining whole sheets of paper.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau




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