laboriously
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I suppose I could disable all these notices, laboriously one by one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
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
She did not hear her feet scraping down the broad stairs, or the courthouse clock laboriously strike two-thirty; she did not feel the dank air of the first floor.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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