scrupulous
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You don’t know them outside of the clips–slash–paid ads, but you feel like you do, which makes it all the more difficult for actually scrupulous journalists and fact-finders to break through and correct the record.
From Slate • May 6, 2026
Nonetheless, the portfolio’s impressive return reminds us of the need to cultivate scrupulous objectivity when digesting the financial news.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 24, 2025
Growers use blackout curtains to trick the plants into coloring earlier in the fall, but Kobayashi said they have to be scrupulous about keeping the greenhouses completely dark.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
Damar's indignation about his eviction even comes with a scrupulous caveat: "I'm not angry at the tourists. I'm just angry at my own government."
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025
No one complained because the men were very scrupulous about not tearing off the flowers until they were well withered.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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