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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2024

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

When she looked at the blackboard and, rather laboriously, read what was written on it, she saw that it was not.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien