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as in conscientiously
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as in cautiously
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Recent Examples of carefully
Thermal runaway risks must be carefully managed through rigorous testing, monitoring systems, and battery-management software.
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Ken Silverstein,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
Weather conditions are read carefully -- light, wind, temperature -- there's no rush.
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Arkansas Online,
21 June 2026
Throughout the war, however, Beijing looked to carefully navigate its interests, rather than taking a front seat in conflict resolution or overtly picking sides.
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Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
20 June 2026
Even so, anyone interested should read the details carefully when applications open.
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Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
20 June 2026
The rules are quite different from Dolphins and UM football games, so read carefully.
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Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
20 June 2026
These are carefully compiled for each city, meter-by-meter, junction by junction, before a car can operate there.
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New Atlas,
20 June 2026
Episodes find the gang scaring people for class assignments while carefully keeping the monster world under wraps.
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Skyler Trepel,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 June 2026
While borax is a common household cleaner and laundry booster, this chemical compound should be used carefully and with precautions.
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Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
20 June 2026
Ken Silverstein,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
Weather conditions are read carefully -- light, wind, temperature -- there's no rush.
—
Arkansas Online,
21 June 2026
Throughout the war, however, Beijing looked to carefully navigate its interests, rather than taking a front seat in conflict resolution or overtly picking sides.
—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
20 June 2026
Even so, anyone interested should read the details carefully when applications open.
—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
20 June 2026
The rules are quite different from Dolphins and UM football games, so read carefully.
—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
20 June 2026
These are carefully compiled for each city, meter-by-meter, junction by junction, before a car can operate there.
—
New Atlas,
20 June 2026
Episodes find the gang scaring people for class assignments while carefully keeping the monster world under wraps.
—
Skyler Trepel,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 June 2026
While borax is a common household cleaner and laundry booster, this chemical compound should be used carefully and with precautions.
—
Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
20 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carefully
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The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, which teaches people how to conscientiously object to income levies, reports surging interest in its training sessions.
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An attorney general who cannot conscientiously defend a law owes his clients — the people of Florida — the duty of allowing a surrogate to do it.
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Just as the global economy cautiously emerges from one crisis, another is beckoning at the doorstep, one that is completely out of politicians’ control.
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Andrea Riquier Stocks are trading more cautiously in the final hour before the Fed decision.
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During his first state visit to the United States as monarch, Charles stayed scrupulously nonpartisan over the course of a 28-minute address to a joint meeting of Congress.
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Florida attorneys general in both parties scrupulously minimized their secondary roles as partisan politicians.
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Boots were made to look deliberately disheveled, with tiny ladybirds across them.
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Israeli forces continue to commit genocide against Palestinians by deliberately targeting children in the Gaza Strip, an independent United Nations Commission of Inquiry has found.
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Prosecutors, meanwhile, have alleged that Mangione meticulously planned the killing for months, documenting his thoughts in journals and traveling across the country before shooting Thompson in the back outside a business event in New York City, where neither of them lived.
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Amanda Allen Hall meticulously plans every meal.
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Results arrive slowly, so patience matters more than most people expect.
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Production will need to be restarted – slowly, over several weeks – to ensure crude reservoirs don’t collapse, requiring re-drilling and substantial repairs.
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Decorating rules can be helpful guidelines, but adhering too strictly to conventional wisdom can seriously cramp your style.
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Comic books until then had been strictly boys’-own adventures, with titles like Eagle and Hotspur, that gave young boys permission to revel in the grim 20th century wars their fathers had fought in.
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