properly
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“We never really had the time to focus on designing the house properly before. We just kept having kids and working,” he explained.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Benjamin Myers’s introduction to “The Spire” is the most useful: clear, attentive to structure, properly alert to the novel’s historical and symbolic dimensions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
If properly conserved, they can last for hundreds of years.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Last night Ghazalian could not properly lock up Dialog Cafe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
I looked at him properly for the first time.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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