painstaking
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Scroll through TikTok for long enough and you'll find short films about fictional relationships, with painstaking fan edits, imagined future storylines, AI-generated posters and millions of comments debating them as if they're real.
From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026
That deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, followed two years of painstaking negotiations that were predicated on a similar, yet more detailed framework, called the JCPOA.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2026
This is, to put it plainly, the stuff of well-considered emotional rawness, painstaking portraiture of our collective pasts.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
Besides the usual painstaking design choices every year for its existing products, Ternus has two big challenges at the top of his agenda.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
And even the most painstaking piece of craft does not deserve to be called a work of art unless it involves a leap of the imagination.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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