painstaking

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The challenge for management, directors and investors is to have patience through this painstaking process while simultaneously kicking the tires and asking all the right questions during the building process.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

The international research team attached tiny GPS trackers to 69 ravens -- an impressive number considering the painstaking work in trapping the particularly observant birds.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

“The Complex” works instead by painstaking accretion—or rather, by erosion, recording in granular detail all the lies and violations that eat away at the Chopras’ respectable facade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Through painstaking renovations and a bit of reality TV magic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

I asked Professor Brown as she came over to help the technician remove the probes from my left leg with a painstaking slowness that set my teeth on edge.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin