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Through years of painstaking trials, Dr. Pepperberg worked to show that her parrot was not just parroting things he'd heard from his handlers, but that he could also distinguish colors and shapes and sizes, that he understood concepts like "bigger," "same," "different" and perhaps even the existential idea of "none".
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In general the process of animation involves painstaking trial and error that Mr. Tamstorf at Disney compared to "operating blindfolded".
Tata's rivals may be able to free-ride on its efforts, copying the cost-cutting tricks it had to discover through painstaking trial and error.
The subsequent evolutionary journey is fascinating: people who moan about the Met Office are advised to consider the painstaking trial and error that has led to the forecast accuracy we enjoy today.
That country, as it grows and modernizes, is adopting some of the energy-efficiency and renewable-energy measures that the developed world acquired through painstaking trial and error (though China is building plenty of coal plants, too).
It took her two years of painstaking trial-and-error, but eventually she created a brand new, patented class of silicone that worked for her aims.
Through painstaking trial and error, they figured out the right combination of barrier materials to protect the work from the pressure of the staple gun: padding underneath the stapler, silicone release mylar over the wax surface, and a mylar strip positioned where the staple releases, so it doesn't cause indentation.
The drugs we use to treat any condition from an innocuous cough to a life-threatening cancer are the outcome of painstaking human clinical trials.
It was a painstaking process of trial and error.
Creating these multi-layered structures demanded a painstaking process of trial and error.
Using a painstaking combination of trial and error and standard genetic techniques, gerontologist Olivia Pereira-Smith and her colleagues at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, have now found a gene that ends immortality in one of the four classes of immortal cells.
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