painstakingly

adverb

as in meticulously

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Recent Examples of painstakingly Around 30 animators worked across 40 tiny sets, painstakingly constructing a feature-length film frame by frame. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026 Wednesday’s operation involved painstakingly maneuvering a large floating platform through the canal to drive the shark out. — ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026 In years past, audio hosts would painstakingly describe a chart. — Victoria Usher, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026 To be stacked together efficiently, they must be painstakingly paired for infinitesimal compatibility. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026 The painstakingly slow pace is rewarded, as a whimsical work is gradually brought to life through a series of frames. — Bridget Arsenault, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026 The two then painstakingly matched the items with photos of Guest wearing them in order to tell the complete visual story of her life. — Ari Stark, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026 The husband-and-wife duo painstakingly restored the home and opened it as a luxury bed-and-breakfast three years later. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026 The Movistar Plus Original has been painstakingly researched, and is set in the late 1990s and early 2000s. — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for painstakingly
  1. meticulously
  2. exhaustively
  3. conscientiously
  4. thoroughly
  5. seriously
  6. attentively
  7. ardently
  8. earnestly
Adverb
  • While Barlow normally kept her car meticulously clean, Kramer said the recovered vehicle had been completely trashed inside and looked as though it had been driven under a fence.
    — Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Hundreds of sauces meticulously arranged in neat rows, like soldiers standing at attention, greet us.
    — Vanessa Anderson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of meticulously
Adverb
  • Comparison shopping more exhaustively can be just that, exhausting.
    — Lindsay Owens, as told to Nina Zipkin, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
  • It has also only been trained on a limited number of cell types that biologists have studied exhaustively.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of exhaustively
Adverb
  • One way in which Wounaan do so is conscientiously sharing and redistributing food, money, wisdom and the like to foster equity.
    — Chenier Carpio Opua, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026
  • By thinking locally, building conscientiously, and operationalizing sustainability in our deployment choices, AI users, companies, and developers can also help ensure that the infrastructure powering our future doesn’t cost us the earth.
    — Sasha Luccioni, Time, 3 July 2026
Definition of conscientiously
Adverb
  • But an intravenous dose reaches the bloodstream more thoroughly.
    — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The character was so thoroughly developed that Yerou and her team could hit the ground running on a marketing campaign.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of thoroughly
Adverb
  • Health officials at Nasser Hospital said a midafternoon strike hit near a Red Cross field hospital in Rafah on Wednesday, killing three people and injuring 15 more, including five seriously.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Doctors and nurses fear that the health of would-be moms is on the line, and that Black maternal health is not being taken seriously.
    — Lauren Victory, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of seriously
Adverb
  • Anyway, Evelyn appeared to be listening attentively to Jack, though her eyes remained glued to the stage.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Gnocchi sits attentively on a Beverly Grove sidewalk with his owner, Julia Luke.
    — Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of attentively
Adverb
  • While many Democrats have ardently defended transgender rights, particularly in California, others in the party have sided with Republicans or softened their support.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026
  • On the other side of Via Solari, a handful of policemen gathered around dozens of demonstrators, who ardently—but peacefully—chanted for entirely different reasons.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of ardently
Adverb
  • And yet, if someone earnestly explores the merits of the zodiac or crystal healing at a dinner party, my inner cynic awakens.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2026
  • From the moment Errol Holden’s raps entered the public sphere in the early 2020s, listening to them has felt like hearing a stranger on the street earnestly tell you how the city has changed.
    — Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of earnestly

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