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painstaking

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When a large project like “Caliphate” collapses, accordingly, it leaves behind a lot of awkward and painstaking management chores.

While the ADA is painstaking in its mandates to avoid potential burdens, the ACAA has historically struggled to find the right balance.

Instead, it’s a painstaking recreation of the original hardware, with tweaks to introduce modern conveniences like high-definition video, wireless controllers and improvements to reliability, and so on.

Like any good cast iron cleaner, this scrub brush will get rid of the tough residue without ruining the painstaking seasoning that makes the cast iron so great for cooking.

At their core, these products represent intellectual property—decades of agricultural know-how, a unique climate, or painstaking investment have set them apart from every other product like them around the world.

From Quartz

Without any explanation we watch art restorers at work, and the painstaking, technical deconstruction of a Rembrandt.

Monitoring and surveillance are painstaking work, but necessary to finding and preparing the perfect location.

In months of painstaking negotiations with the gang of eight, he agreed to the existing language.

And the rational corrective is invariably slow and painstaking.

Building cover is a long and painstaking process that involves more than remembering not to use a Hebrew word here and there.

If not, he must carefully study the intervening pages with painstaking—for when once learned, no further difficulty can arise.

Women make better wormers than men, probably because they are more patient and painstaking.

Sometimes the Time Observatory would pinpoint an age and hover over it while his companions took painstaking historical notes.

Opportunities are constantly afforded for error, and the work must necessarily be painstaking in order to be successful.

The location is a rather secluded one and the painstaking care noticeable about so many ruins is lacking.

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On this page you'll find 81 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to painstaking, such as: assiduous, careful, conscientious, diligent, earnest, and exacting.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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