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painstaking

 adjective
     
pains‧tak‧ing [usually before noun]
very careful and thorough:
The work had been done with painstaking attention to detail.
Chris described in painstaking detail what had happened.
—painstakingly adverb:
The old painting was painstakingly restored.
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