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painstakingly





ADVERB
laboriously
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ADVERB
painfully
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Jefferis' team and collaborators painstakingly analysed every nerve cell, every wire and every connection in a male fruit fly.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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

The reader thus misses the ability to see what Muratov painstakingly describes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Where other filmmakers would painstakingly elucidate every thematic detail to make their silly popcorn movie “say something,” Mitchell restrains himself.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

Together they opened a series of small piece- goods stores, painstakingly learning the details of small- business entrepreneurship.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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