rigorous

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More than half these plans have been sued in the past 15 years, even though they follow rigorous fiduciary best practices with the advice of industry experts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Managers with experienced investment teams, rigorous underwriting standards and strong risk controls are structurally better positioned to navigate periods of stress.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

“This rigorous approach just hasn’t been taken with VSELs. I find the work mystifying and lacking in rigor,” he said.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

“This constellation of foreign investment from China and from Gulf States, with complex and sometimes competing relationships with the United States, demands rigorous, not perfunctory review,” Booker and the others wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

But the zoos’ rigorous selection of California condors shows no prospects of yielding an economically useful product.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond