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Example sentences for: painstaking

How can you use “painstaking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The whole process is both painstaking and expensive, and the “democratization” of the imperial institutions since the emperor renounced his divinity means the shrines (rather than the state) must now foot the bill.
Inventory control relied on painstaking, manual comparisons between sales records (paper receipts) and physical counts of items on the floor, in the back room, and in warehouses.
Self, it's surprising to discover, is a painstaking realist.
We owe a huge debt to their investigative labors, painstaking attention to detail, and readiness to share what they have learned.
When will people learn that dictionaries are not the product of the collective imaginations of those who prepare them or the manifestations of the dreams of a single lexicographer but the result of lengthy, painstaking research to determine how the language is being used, the analysis and codification of the results, and then their organization into a usable reference source?