take pains
Example Sentences
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Fed officials didn’t always take pains to communicate with the markets and the public.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 3, 2026
The people interviewed take pains to compliment Mr. Chase, though even a longtime collaborator like Alan Zweibel, who wrote for “SNL,” can’t repair 50 years of bad vibes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025
While a human perpetrator may take pains not to leave their own DNA behind, transferred cat hair contains its own DNA that could provide a link between a suspect and a crime-scene, or a victim.
From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2023
Many Syrians take pains to point out that authorities have provided services for them and that they’ve received support from Turkish friends and colleagues.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2023
The writers of books on insect behavior generally take pains, in their prefaces, to caution that insects are like creatures from another planet, that their behavior is absolutely foreign, totally unhuman, unearthly, almost unbiological.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
