take pains
Example Sentences
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He took pains to make sure it was straight.
From Literature
Fed officials didn’t always take pains to communicate with the markets and the public.
From MarketWatch
Amusingly, Mr. Romney takes pains to point out that beneficiaries of this tax provision weren’t cheaters; they were playing by the rules.
The personal is political, as the feminist rallying cry has it, and Wohl has taken pains never to lose sight of this insight when imagining the complexities of the lives of others.
From Los Angeles Times
Soon after Microsoft Research published that report, its authors took pains to point out that they weren’t trying to predict who would lose jobs to AI.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
