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

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

Once upon a time, alpinists laboriously hacked steps into it — literal stairways to heaven.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 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

He and Joe collected smooth river rocks from the Dungeness and laboriously erected an enormous stone fireplace.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown