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
Not a name, as he would take pains to explain, but an equation — RAM times elevation to the power of Z — and “military function formation” that he embodied.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2022
They take pains to explain that ants are not, emphatically not, tiny mechanical models of human beings.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
