take pains
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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.
Schwab executives recently took pains to assure investors that was something it wouldn’t need to do.
From Seattle Times
The filmmakers took pains to make the geography game-accurate, being mindful of relative positions, travel times and how different areas relate.
From New York Times
The “Honor Among Thieves” filmmakers took pains to also make the project accessible to people who’ve never rolled a 20-sided die in their lives.
From Los Angeles Times
Indeed, this “savage,” as Shakespeare took pains to note in his complicated depiction of Caliban, is a good deal more civilized than the drunken riffraff with whom he falls into cahoots.
From Los Angeles Times
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