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Synonyms for painstakingly

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Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · adverb

The senseadverbTier 5, Summit

in a fastidious and painstaking manner

Painstakingly learn the routines of selling.

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The true synonym

fastidiously

Same sentence, swapped: Fastidiously learn the routines of selling.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for painstakingly as it is used in the sentence above.

earnestly
dingdong
tenderly

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