laboriously

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The garden's collection has been laboriously reassembled after it had perished during World War II -- through decades of purchases, exchanges and numerous scientific missions that took Ivannikov's senior colleagues across several continents.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

Hitting “Buy Now” on a pair of pants I spent a month laboriously price tracking will simply never hit the same.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2025

She worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a “human computer,” laboriously measuring the positions and brightness of thousands of stars on photographic plates.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2025

Once upon a time, alpinists laboriously hacked steps into it — literal stairways to heaven.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2024

Sciola, behind him, climbed laboriously up the last two or three steps, bracing his knee with his palm.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt