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Recent Examples of painstakingly
The novel unfolds like an oral storytelling tradition, driven by a voice that Sarris painstakingly crafted, evoking his conversation with McKay.
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Maddie Connors,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2026
Everything else, no matter how massive in scale or painstakingly rendered, is just sound and fury, not the master nor commander of anything.
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Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
24 June 2026
It was painstakingly built through years of disappointing seasons, failed rebuilds, high-profile leadership changes, structural overhauls and grueling strategic adjustments.
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Melissa Dawn Simkins,
Fortune,
22 June 2026
Residents assemble altars at the thresholds of their homes, adorning them with prized heirloom linens, and step into stockings, underskirts, petticoats, and blouses that have been painstakingly hand-stitched and preserved across generations.
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Catherine Tansey,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 June 2026
Berkshire Hathaway, painstakingly assembled over two century-old lives.
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Yun Li,
CNBC,
16 June 2026
The original video of that game had been damaged and lost for some time, but then, after many years, it was retrieved and painstakingly restored—incompletely, but just enough to get the gist, as with the Dead Sea Scrolls or the Gnostic gospels.
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David Remnick,
New Yorker,
14 June 2026
Much like Hermès, Laurent-Perrier eschews manufacturing efficiencies in favor of painstakingly handmade quality and slow luxury, where patience is part of the product itself.
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Katie Kelly Bell,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
With the World Cup back on North American soil, companies have spent years painstakingly planning product and merchandise offerings to capitalize on the tournament’s global interest.
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Brooks Peck,
New York Times,
10 June 2026
Maddie Connors,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2026
Everything else, no matter how massive in scale or painstakingly rendered, is just sound and fury, not the master nor commander of anything.
—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
24 June 2026
It was painstakingly built through years of disappointing seasons, failed rebuilds, high-profile leadership changes, structural overhauls and grueling strategic adjustments.
—
Melissa Dawn Simkins,
Fortune,
22 June 2026
Residents assemble altars at the thresholds of their homes, adorning them with prized heirloom linens, and step into stockings, underskirts, petticoats, and blouses that have been painstakingly hand-stitched and preserved across generations.
—
Catherine Tansey,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 June 2026
Berkshire Hathaway, painstakingly assembled over two century-old lives.
—
Yun Li,
CNBC,
16 June 2026
The original video of that game had been damaged and lost for some time, but then, after many years, it was retrieved and painstakingly restored—incompletely, but just enough to get the gist, as with the Dead Sea Scrolls or the Gnostic gospels.
—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
14 June 2026
Much like Hermès, Laurent-Perrier eschews manufacturing efficiencies in favor of painstakingly handmade quality and slow luxury, where patience is part of the product itself.
—
Katie Kelly Bell,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
With the World Cup back on North American soil, companies have spent years painstakingly planning product and merchandise offerings to capitalize on the tournament’s global interest.
—
Brooks Peck,
New York Times,
10 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for painstakingly
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Prosecutors, meanwhile, have alleged that Mangione meticulously planned the killing for months, documenting his thoughts in journals and traveling across the country before shooting Thompson in the back outside a business event in New York City, where neither of them lived.
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Amanda Allen Hall meticulously plans every meal.
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But rather than further ratchet up the stakes in the final minutes, the episode closes with Rosemary exhaustively — and rather hilariously — going over an extensive genealogical document for Tom and Patricia.
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Have these people never read, say, The Feminine Mystique, which exhaustively cataloged the despair of mid-century stay-at-home mothers?
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The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, which teaches people how to conscientiously object to income levies, reports surging interest in its training sessions.
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An attorney general who cannot conscientiously defend a law owes his clients — the people of Florida — the duty of allowing a surrogate to do it.
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In a social media post Saturday afternoon, the Kansas City Police Department wrote that bags that don’t meet the event’s clear bag policy were diverting law enforcement resources, as those bags have to be thoroughly inspected.
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Plan thoroughly, and let structure support freedom.
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Anthropic is not the only company taking this seriously.
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The lawsuit also accuses emergency responders and dispatchers of mishandling the aftermath by prioritizing treatment and transport of the deputy over the couple, who were more seriously injured, delaying critical medical care.
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Two of my cousins, both women in their early 20s, came to sit behind me a few minutes into the interview, watching attentively.
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At the heart of the company’s ambitious vision for AI lies an enormous expenditure figure that every shareholder should monitor attentively.
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Kevan Harris, an associate professor of sociology at UCLA who has studied the Iranian diaspora, said some of the ardently monarchist Iranians became disillusioned and demobilized when the war’s initial objective of regime change failed.
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Like the tour, the first input meeting garnered significant interest from farmers and residents alike, all of whom are ardently concerned with what the county decides to do with the Ag Reserve.
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Maybe the only thing scarier than the opening scene of The Happening is Mark Wahlberg attempting to earnestly and fearfully talk to a plant.
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And of course there will always be readers who balk at SF, refusing to countenance that our lived reality is saturated with it, and that the time for earnestly realistic state-of-the-nation novels may have passed.
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“Painstakingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/painstakingly. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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