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Meanings of painstaking in English

Characterized by extreme care and great effort.

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Usage of painstaking in English
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The project is a result of several years' work and painstaking planning.
The Irish Times
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Managers spell out the situation in painstaking detail, answering every possible query.
The Guardian
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It takes months of painstaking detective work to put a case together.
The Irish Times
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Making this transformation... requires painstaking work and it takes time, he said.
Reuters
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After years of painstaking cuts, however, nobody should feel any poorer either.
The Irish Times
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There is outstanding craftsmanship in the home and painstaking attention to detail.
The Irish Times
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These are not stories loosely based on history: Stewart's research is painstaking.
Reuters
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And while his work was always painstaking, it has also become painful.
The Guardian
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Once the painstaking details are taken care of, the scene is set.
The new yorker
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He answers it in a painstaking, rather clumsy hand: but he manages.
The crimson petal and the white
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Because it's the most frustrating, tiresome and painstaking way of cooking food.
The Irish Times
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So it is painstaking work, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi told CBC radio.
Reuters
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He sympathized with his painstaking effort to get up in the world.
The Financier: A Novel
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The blog post I wrote pretty much describes it in painstaking detail.
Wired
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Getting his fingers ready for the painstaking, precise work they excelled at.
Damaged
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You must start with a modest but painstaking study of traditional physics.
Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations
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Painstaking through the time
Painstaking across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common