painstaking
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Their painstaking downsizing process took about five months.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
The planters are original to the stadium’s 1962 construction, and many had crumbled badly enough over the decades to need painstaking repair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Now, after a decade of experiments, corrections, and painstaking analysis, the answer was sitting inside a sealed envelope.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
It has survived wars and upheavals, but the famed handwoven Kashmir carpet industry is now battling a steady decline as younger generations abandon the painstaking craft.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
In my slow, painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied into my tablet everything printed on that first page, down to the punctuation marks.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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