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

Hitting “Buy Now” on a pair of pants I spent a month laboriously price tracking will simply never hit the same.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2025

She worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a “human computer,” laboriously measuring the positions and brightness of thousands of stars on photographic plates.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2025

Pillcopata, Peru—Twenty years ago, a dozen Peruvian biology undergraduates armed with machetes and tape measures laboriously cleared a trail down the steep eastern flank of the Andes Mountains near this sleepy Amazonian town.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 2, 2023

He was digging in his garden—digging, too, in his own mind, laboriously turning up the substance of his thought.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley