fastidious
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Susan Lazar Mussaffi, a Miami-based chef, was fastidious about following the packing advice for her Bordier butter after braving La Grande Épicerie’s Christmas crowds to get it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
She was fastidious, using the company’s laboratory to analyze the tannins and colors of grapes in different parcels of the vineyard to craft specific types of wine, just as she had been taught in Bordeaux.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
They’re the rare organization that is forward-thinking and fastidious enough, as general manager Les Snead said, to be “always threading the needle,” focused on the future in a few minutes and in a few years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
The fastidious Mendoza needs to get his platoon rescued but he can’t concentrate on coordinates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025
There—and note the nice rising tricolon at the very outset— you can see a precise shaping of the speaker’s relationship with the audience, and a fastidious, slightly bogus, self-abasement.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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