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

We are more representative of what chasing that dream actually looks like, because we’re laboriously doing it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

Plus, it would be easier to just tie a rope around the stones, rather than laboriously chisel out a hole.

From Slate • Nov. 11, 2023

Pillcopata, Peru—Twenty years ago, a dozen Peruvian biology undergraduates armed with machetes and tape measures laboriously cleared a trail down the steep eastern flank of the Andes Mountains near this sleepy Amazonian town.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 2, 2023

He scratched and pluttered away, and laboriously bit the end of his pen, and the castle room darkened about him.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White