painstaking

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Metro board member Fernando Dutra said the agency had been working through a painstaking process to bring systems back online, an effort that continues.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

And as much as we might think innovations happen fast—perhaps true in software but rarely in other areas—Bell Labs’ example shows that breakthroughs often happen slowly, and with painstaking effort.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

At the same time, low-paid workers there have long been carrying out the unseen and painstaking task of manually categorising the vast amounts of data used to train the world's AI tools.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

Susan Stamatkin, 67, is making a painstaking list of every detail of her household before she has surgery at the end of March.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 10, 2026

Eddington’s painstaking publicity campaign launched the theory of relativity into popular culture and its father, Albert Einstein, into a life of international renown.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik