Definition of painstaking
: the action of taking pains : diligent care and effort painstaking research a painstaking process
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First Known Use of painstaking
1538
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Definition of painstaking
: taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort
Examples of painstaking in a Sentence
The book describes the election process in painstaking detail.
she was always painstaking about her work
Recent Examples of painstaking from the Web
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Freeing whales is painstaking, dangerous work, and the massive animals are prone to be upset or act unpredictably after being trapped.
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Leaf by leaf Palaeobotanists such as Peppe are hoping for ways to automate the analysis of fossilized leaves—a process that currently requires painstaking work to manually place landmarks on fossils for analysis.
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Fanning is pictured in a tintype photograph taken using the wet collodion process, a painstaking method that was common during the war.
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The search for the brown-eyed killer was brief but painstaking.
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But manufacturing is a painstaking process that has lead to continuing delays.
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There is the painstaking work of taxonomists who continue to catalogue the earth's estimated 10 quintillion insects; the Greek island beekeepers; and the Zika-fighting mosquitoes in Brazil.
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In addition to the criminal investigation, police and firefighters are continuing painstaking efforts to locate the victims.
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In painstaking terms, Saunders discusses checking into the Westchester Medical Psychiatric Ward at Mt. Sinai Hospital in 2009, all unbeknownst to his ESPN colleagues.
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First Known Use of painstaking
circa 1685
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: showing or done with great care and effort
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: taking or showing great care painstaking work
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