painstakingly
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Det Ch Insp Mel Sutherland said forensic anthropologist Dr Micol Zuppello worked for several days to "painstakingly extract the body", with all but the tip of a toe and some small eye socket bones recovered.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Apple's manufacturing operation is among the most complex in corporate history, a web of hundreds of suppliers and assembly lines that Cook painstakingly built over decades.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
He curates his recommendations painstakingly, choosing brisk reads of around 250 pages that he hopes will hook new readers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Gus was excavated and assembled over five years by a team at Theropoda Expeditions, which painstakingly documented where each piece was found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
By October 1940, they began to sift through the concentrated bacterial detritus, painstakingly separating each chemical component, and testing each fraction for its capacity to transmit genetic information.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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