painstaking
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Their painstaking downsizing process took about five months.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
The planters are original to the stadium’s 1962 construction, and many had crumbled badly enough over the decades to need painstaking repair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Now, after a decade of experiments, corrections, and painstaking analysis, the answer was sitting inside a sealed envelope.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Soldatov, the expert on Russian security services, said what was needed was "a systematic effort to improve intelligence-sharing across European agencies, combined with painstaking intelligence work".
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
The watercolor which was a major project had taken a week of painstaking work, simply because Jerry was not at his best in free art.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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