painstaking
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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
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
Rescuers from seven countries -- Venezuela, Chile, the United States, Portugal, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Mexico -- were involved in the painstaking operation.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Transformative technologies never arrive fully formed; they rely upon determined practitioners committed to the painstaking work of distilling extravagant promise into daily practice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
With painstaking care, deep in the tough leather I scratched the name “Old Dan” on one and “Little Ann” on the other.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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