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take pains

VERB
  1. try very hard to do something

How To Use take pains In A Sentence

  • They take pains to hire people whose personalities predispose them to serve customers well.
  • And he take pains to trace Wilde's homosexuality primarily to the literary precedents he discovered in his classical studies at Oxford -- the Greek ideal of a "paederastic" love of an older, intellectual mentor and an acolyte. Wilde in the Stacks
  • You'd think a high school would take pains not to title their cookbook so that it sounded like, well, a high school project.
  • When a certain behavior is associated with one group, members of that group may take pains to avoid proving society's generalization. Polygamy Meets Economy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • The department of Archaeological Survey of India was just a call away from the Estate department officials but the latter did not take pains to do what was needful and prudent.
  • But formal organization is something many young netizens may take pains to avoid, possibly viewing it as somehow akin to parental or societal authority, things toward which many musical subcultures are built in opposition.
  • They take pains to hire people whose personalities predispose them to serve customers well.
  • They take pains to hire people whose personalities predispose them to serve customers well.
  • They take pains to hire people whose personalities predispose them to serve customers well.
  • They take pains to hire people whose personalities predispose them to serve customers well.
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