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painstakingly





ADVERB
laboriously
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ADVERB
painfully
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Painstakingly, Bharat and Ashwin soaked up the pressure, rode their luck and inched the score onwards.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2024

Painstakingly committing the tiniest details of scores to memory, Mitropoulos seemed not to direct music but to emanate and embody it, fists flailing and feet flying.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2022

Painstakingly, the JET team worked out what was going on.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 9, 2022

Painstakingly perfected versions of iconic specialties are a Court Street Grocers calling card, but this one, made with duck, hand-cut pasta, and aged Cheddar, reads more like a condescending attempt at elevation than an homage.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 10, 2020

Painstakingly, she put a dot of glue on each of the scraps and pressed each one into its place on one of her precious few remaining whole sheets of paper.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau




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