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
Metro board member Fernando Dutra said the agency had been working through a painstaking process to bring systems back online, an effort that continues.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026
"A traditional minesweeper which is conducting slow, painstaking work is going to find it tricky to hunt for mines and deactivate them if they are also under air and surface attack," he said.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 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
If the mutation rate is too high, we lose the inheritance of four billion years of painstaking evolution.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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