painstaking

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Three weeks after the bombing, the Daily News reported that investigators “admit that thousands of hours of painstaking work have not put them on the track of anyone who could be called a likely suspect.”

From Slate • Jul. 7, 2026

From a science standpoint, "the content of the documents is absolutely incredible", said Francois Kervyn, the museum geologist leading the project, describing decades of painstaking fieldwork carried out in largely unmapped regions.

From Barron's • Jul. 3, 2026

Scroll through TikTok for long enough and you'll find short films about fictional relationships, with painstaking fan edits, imagined future storylines, AI-generated posters and millions of comments debating them as if they're real.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026

That deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, followed two years of painstaking negotiations that were predicated on a similar, yet more detailed framework, called the JCPOA.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2026

Egg tempera is difficult and messy, painstaking and, at first, heartbreaking.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood