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meticulously

[muh-tik-yuh-luhs-lee] / məˈtɪk jə ləs li /








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Local police had told the family that Pete and Fran's car had been "meticulously searched" by forensic specialists and that she would find nothing.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

In Schoenbrun’s debut novel, “Public Access Afterworld,” the filmmaker takes a sizable risk, stripping away the meticulously crafted onscreen worlds to assert the dexterity of their prose.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

Pierson meticulously tracks her job-search process with a spreadsheet system she designed.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

Playing with hickories in primitive conditions would give us a true sense of what golf was like before course designers reshaped landscapes and mowers meticulously smoothed out their surfaces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Mrs. Richardson, watching the fire chief meticulously taking notes on his clipboard, had completely forgotten about her former tenants.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng


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