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dutifully

[doo-tuh-flee, dyoo-] / ˈdu tə fli, ˈdju- /




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Though the period is dutifully realized, we’re left without an artful dramatization of why everything changed because of these particular people in this specific scenario.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

The contrast is what makes this feel like a dish rather than a vegetable dutifully placed beside dinner.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Inside a hotel conference room downtown, rapper/vocalists Johnny and Taeyong and singers Jaehyun, Haechan and Yuta are dutifully seated at a table with iced coffees, pens and notepads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

These are recurring operating expenses that analysts covering Broadcom dutifully ignored, and they were hardly alone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

During her years at school she had dutifully memorized the capitals of midsized European nations, but Russia was hardly midsized.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood


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