as in meticulous
taking, showing, or involving great care and effort
she was always painstaking about her work
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Recent Examples of painstaking
Keyla Marquez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
In the process, Hardenberg gives us a richly detailed yet very accessible history of how over five centuries, the concept of measuring mean sea level was a painstaking process that advanced in fits and starts.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Wagner would be a sleepless highbrow’s favorite; the long, lush, unbroken lines of music share with the white-noise hum of the air-conditioner or the thrum of the painstaking lecture the quality of being absorbing without offering undue eventfulness.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
The creation of Black Masking suits is a painstaking process, often taking more than a year of detailed handwork to complete.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 8 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for painstaking
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No, those are painstaking ideas that take years and years to develop.
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Follow the marvelously meticulous writer of this newsletter on social media @jimreineking.—
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Being meticulous scored points with a couple of people who went with Evan Bouchard.—
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Instead, her life was turned upside down last week after President Donald Trump’s administration began instituting mass layoffs as part of an aggressive effort to trim the federal workforce.—
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Jimenez had seven of Fulham’s 24 efforts on goal, 10 of which were on target.—
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Effective brainstorming sessions require careful planning and prep.—
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Under Jones’ careful direction, the Bulldogs do not beat themselves.—
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Take the conscientious soul who posts her outrage over the war in Ukraine on social media before, seconds later, sharing a picture of her lunch.—
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Nearly 18 percent of kindergarteners in Gaines have conscientious exemptions, which is an exemption from school vaccination requirements based on reasons of conscience, including a religious belief.—
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Research by Michael Scheier and Charles Carver found that optimism fuels persistence because optimistic individuals envision reaching their goals, even during setbacks.—
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Not only about the persistence of violence against women but about the confusions present across our societies.—
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Parthenope is inscrutable yet expressive, insolent yet heroic, magnetic yet unattainable, loving yet selfish.—
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For my entire life, the epitome of tall, dark, and handsome has been Morris Chestnut, an actor who looks as if he was sculpted from marble by the hands of a loving and generous god.—
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The two sides worked together to create a more diligent plan.—
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Prabhu’s diligent younger brother Venkati (Natesh) plans to marry Malabari’s sister Devaki (Bindu Raxidi), but the caste inequity between their families is sure to eventually rear its head.—
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“Painstaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/painstaking. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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