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painstaking

[peynz-tey-king, peyn-stey-] / ˈpeɪnzˌteɪ kɪŋ, ˈpeɪnˌsteɪ- /


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When the U.S. has looked to clear mines in the past, it’s been a painstaking process.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

Through painstaking renovations and a bit of reality TV magic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

His decades of painstaking research helped lead to a push in the 1990s for the Air Force to come clean on what it had been doing: testing spy balloons and recovering crash dummies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 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

This was done in a leisurely, painstaking manner; yet the people in the hall were charged with passion; a sense of human destiny lived; an atmosphere of human frailty was present.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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