painstaking
Example Sentences
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Wildlife medicine can be very slow and painstaking, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
"The LNF is an amazing facility," Gong said, adding it was a painstaking process to meld the device's materials together in a way that didn't introduce any extraneous electric fields.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Alan Morrison, chief executive of Arrow Lab, says the company has a painstaking process to review each kit component to prevent contamination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Yesterday, over 18 painstaking hours, teams of French and British conservators and British Museum staff unfurled the 70-metre long artwork from the folding stand where it had been concertinaed, surrounded by protective mattress-type padding.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Then, with painstaking care, I carved their names deep in its red surface.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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