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  • painstaking — I adjective assiduous, attentive, careful, conscientious, diligent, earnest, elaborate, energetic, exacting, hardworking, heedful, industrious, labored, laborious, meticulous, never tiring, operose, operosus, particular, persevering, plodding,… …   Law dictionary

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