painstaking
adjective
painstakingly
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a word derived from
painstaking.
Example Sentences
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Det Ch Insp Mel Sutherland said forensic anthropologist Dr Micol Zuppello worked for several days to "painstakingly extract the body", with all but the tip of a toe and some small eye socket bones recovered.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
In the historic Japanese city of Kanazawa, craftsmen painstakingly shape and slice blocks of ice destined to chill negronis in some of the world's trendiest bars.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
The reader thus misses the ability to see what Muratov painstakingly describes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Where other filmmakers would painstakingly elucidate every thematic detail to make their silly popcorn movie “say something,” Mitchell restrains himself.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Since the war, Chargaff and his students had been painstakingly analyzing various DNA samples for the relative proportions of their purine and pyrimidine bases.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
