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painstaking

[peynz-tey-king, peyn-stey-] / ˈpeɪnzˌteɪ kɪŋ, ˈpeɪnˌsteɪ- /


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His decades of painstaking research helped lead to a push in the 1990s for the Air Force to come clean on what it had been doing: testing spy balloons and recovering crash dummies.

From The Wall Street Journal

At the same time, low-paid workers there have long been carrying out the unseen and painstaking task of manually categorising the vast amounts of data used to train the world's AI tools.

From BBC

Susan Stamatkin, 67, is making a painstaking list of every detail of her household before she has surgery at the end of March.

From MarketWatch

She would create multiple pictures of the same or similar subjects, refining her craft through painstaking repetition on her modest-sized canvases.

From BBC

Negotiations between Brussels and Canberra collapsed in 2023 after five years of painstaking discussions over a wide array of issues.

From Barron's