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• s  characterized by extreme care and great effort
  painstaking research

• The investigation was painstaking as the clues had gone cold due to passage of time.
• Painstaking detective work finally unravelled the mystery of the lost ship at the high seas.
• By dint of painstaking labor on the part of its developer, Bungie, it has been refined over three installments to the point where it delivers only pure, unadulterated gaming bliss.

• conscientious
• scrupulous

News & Articles

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• Stained glass windows at burned Denver church get artisan treatment
  Phil Watkins estimates it will take about four months of painstaking labor to restore the six historic stained glass windows damaged last month in the fire at the Church of the Ascension.
  June 16, 2013 - Denver Post
• Rulings push jury selection in Trayvon Martin case into second week
  By Barbara Liston SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - A judge's decision to sequester jurors for the murder trial of a Florida neighborhood watchman who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in 2012 will slow an already painstaking selection process to find impartial minds amid saturation media coverage. Jury selection in the racially charged case of teenager Trayvon Martin is headed into a second ...
  June 14, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Tweet-size MBA essays are on the rise
  Admissions officials at top B-schools are increasingly offering alternatives to the traditional application that make those painstaking essays less important.
  June 12, 2013 - CNN Money

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in ABC News
  The full promise of stem cell research remains unknown, and it should not be overstated,President Obama said today. "Medical miracles do not happen simply by accident. They result from painstaking and costly research -- from years of...
• Nicholas Scoppetta in 940 News
  Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said the rescue was "a painstaking hand operation, as we try to remove the rubble so we don't cause further collapse or injure anyone who may still be in that building."
• SM Krishna in Press Trust of India
  After 62 days, after the careful and painstaking inspection of nearly 3 million ballots, after hours and hours of hard work by elections officials and volunteers across the state, I am proud and humbled to stand before you as the next senator from... Al Franken http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Franken&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHKNWIkc4yKelHxsAiTNQIk5j_sfw Chicago Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-franken-senate-ear-06-jan06,0,7521947.story&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEuIPInPvyy85tN0QUwdL9DcP7dgA Jan 5, 2009 71699 95775 painstakingly Krishna said the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks will have to be brought to justice. We have painstakingly collected evidence to convey the involvement of these persons.