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Recent Examples of painstakingly
Preparing the fossils was painstakingly slow.
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Sanaa El-Sayed, The Conversation, 4 June 2026
Prosecutors are painstakingly going over the video, showing the jury only a few seconds of it at a time.
—Cbs Texas Staff, CBS News, 4 June 2026
Much of that ornate exterior has been painstakingly rebuilt.
—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 30 May 2026
Registrar of Voters Bob Page said — who painstakingly remove ballots from envelopes, ensure bubbles are filled in correctly so the votes are properly counted, help residents obtain a replacement ballot or cast a provisional one, make sure someone does not vote twice and much, much more.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 28 May 2026
In 2019, Canadian technologist Mohamed Moussa lamented his relationship with the Quran, a text which has been painstakingly preserved in its original Arabic for 1,400 years.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 26 May 2026
According to Sierra Nevada Geotourism's website, the 20-plus buildings that remain preserved to this day are there due to the efforts of Dave and Arvilla Mills, who painstakingly worked to move the structures to a new location when they were slated for demolition in the 1960s.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 23 May 2026
The surveillance networks and rapid-response infrastructure built painstakingly after the 2014 West Africa epidemic which killed more than 11,000 people and exposed catastrophic gaps in global preparedness are thinner than before.
—Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Working into the morning hours for weeks, if not months, were some five or six members of the sports commission’s staff, painstakingly going over each piece page by page with Sporting KC staff members.
—Kansas City Star, 15 May 2026
Sanaa El-Sayed, The Conversation, 4 June 2026
Prosecutors are painstakingly going over the video, showing the jury only a few seconds of it at a time.
—Cbs Texas Staff, CBS News, 4 June 2026
Much of that ornate exterior has been painstakingly rebuilt.
—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 30 May 2026
Registrar of Voters Bob Page said — who painstakingly remove ballots from envelopes, ensure bubbles are filled in correctly so the votes are properly counted, help residents obtain a replacement ballot or cast a provisional one, make sure someone does not vote twice and much, much more.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 28 May 2026
In 2019, Canadian technologist Mohamed Moussa lamented his relationship with the Quran, a text which has been painstakingly preserved in its original Arabic for 1,400 years.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 26 May 2026
According to Sierra Nevada Geotourism's website, the 20-plus buildings that remain preserved to this day are there due to the efforts of Dave and Arvilla Mills, who painstakingly worked to move the structures to a new location when they were slated for demolition in the 1960s.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 23 May 2026
The surveillance networks and rapid-response infrastructure built painstakingly after the 2014 West Africa epidemic which killed more than 11,000 people and exposed catastrophic gaps in global preparedness are thinner than before.
—Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Working into the morning hours for weeks, if not months, were some five or six members of the sports commission’s staff, painstakingly going over each piece page by page with Sporting KC staff members.
—Kansas City Star, 15 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for painstakingly
Adverb
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But when the 27-year-old uploaded 16 years of meticulously kept medical records into ChatGPT, the machine reported that Morgan was suffering from a different ailment than the one diagnosed by doctors.—
Elizabeth Dwoskin,
Washington Post,
4 June 2026
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Unbeknownst to Anthony, the entire experience is staged, every colleague around him is performing a role, and each moment – whether in conference rooms or during downtime – has been meticulously orchestrated.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
2 June 2026
Adverb
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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?—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
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First, Frank Walsh and a number of other commissioners supported Manly’s 141-page report, which exhaustively documented inequality and injustice.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 May 2026
Adverb
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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.—
Annie Lowrey,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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To all appearances, so many years later, this was a mechanism that had been thoroughly tested and that worked perfectly well.—
Andrea Bajani,
New Yorker,
7 June 2026
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That smell might be coming from chemical disinfectants used on tanks that are rarely cleaned thoroughly.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Southern Living,
7 June 2026
Adverb
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About intermittent success, too, followed by inevitable regression in the only game the United States takes seriously yet cannot seem to conquer the world in.—
Leander Schaerlaeckens
June 8,
Literary Hub,
8 June 2026
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Before taking her 32-year-old brother's offer seriously, Kizzy explored alternatives both in the United Kingdom and abroad.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
7 June 2026
Adverb
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In April, the president traveled to Miami to sit cageside at an Ultimate Fighting Championship event, embracing UFC CEO Dana White, his friend and supporter, and watching attentively through the wire as the fighters spilled blood.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
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The flock attentively listened to the rules of crime solving from George’s books and put all that deductive reasoning to work when George is found dead.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
7 May 2026
Adverb
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Some people ardently believe that AI and AI makers are being allowed to run amok.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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The two Cuban American Republicans co-owned a house in Tallahassee, celebrated family events together and ardently opposed Venezuela’s socialist government when both went to Washington at the same time — Rubio elected to the Senate, Rivera to the House.—
Joshua Goodman,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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But her character’s role is somewhat earnestly compartmentalized.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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Some criticism was thoughtful, warranted, and earnestly reflected Kennedy’s surprising strategic missteps while leading Lucasfilm overall.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
23 May 2026
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“Painstakingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/painstakingly. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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