carefully

adverb

Definition of carefullynext
1
as in conscientiously

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2
as in cautiously

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Recent Examples of carefully Reddington also pushed back on one of the prosecution's central arguments that Lindsay Clancy carefully planned the killings by sending Patrick Clancy out on errands. — Lorraine Taylor , Bryan Llenas, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026 Officials tread carefully in regulating car caravans, which can overwhelm traffic and bring streets to a standstill. — Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026 Setbacks often remind us that our titles can change, our jobs can be taken away, strategies can shift or fail entirely and carefully constructed plans can disappear overnight. — Nathan Mitchell, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026 Training-ground sources say his return has been managed carefully. — Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026 It was done carefully, and taken to the medical examiner's office, and everybody filled up. — Chris Wragge, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026 Aftercare and Maintenance When you are finished pruning, clean up the area carefully. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2026 After carefully clearing the surroundings, researchers imaged each footprint using a high-resolution 3D surface scanner. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 Sep. 2026 Most of the action is invite-only, with guest lists carefully curated by PR teams, but plenty happens outside the official calendar, too. — Amanda Le, InStyle, 9 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carefully
  1. conscientiously
  2. cautiously
  3. scrupulously
  4. deliberately
  5. meticulously
  6. slowly
  7. strictly
Adverb
  • One way in which Wounaan do so is conscientiously sharing and redistributing food, money, wisdom and the like to foster equity.
    — Chenier Carpio Opua, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026
  • By thinking locally, building conscientiously, and operationalizing sustainability in our deployment choices, AI users, companies, and developers can also help ensure that the infrastructure powering our future doesn’t cost us the earth.
    — Sasha Luccioni, Time, 3 July 2026
Definition of conscientiously
Adverb
  • Rather than spurring action because more teams are in the race, clubs have acted more cautiously.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The fox cautiously walked a few feet past us on its journey for bugs and other snacks.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of cautiously
Adverb
  • This analogy is strangely anticlimactic and almost consoling, but a pedestrian ending comes with the territory in a scrupulously realistic book about the inconceivable.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
  • The cleats, now scrupulously modeled in 3D simulations, originated as sharp metal nails, the kind sold at a local hardware store.
    — Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
Definition of scrupulously
Adverb
  • Prosecutors, however, claimed Clancy deliberately killed her children and charged her with first-degree murder.
    — Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2026
  • No self-respecting living thing would deliberately sniff, let alone eat, any part of the plant, which also contains highly toxic steroidal alkaloids.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of deliberately
Adverb
  • Riding United is all about being open-minded, according to Vogel, who studies each course meticulously on foot to work out how many strides the pair should take between jumps.
    — Danielle Rossingh, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Spearheaded by the family’s patriarch, a civil engineer who spent five years meticulously guiding its development, it was envisioned as a place with soul, which is inspired by the family’s summers growing up on the island.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of meticulously
Adverb
  • This wider story spans five centuries from the first enslavement of the Caribbean Lucayan and Taíno in 1492 to the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978, which slowly halted the stealing of tens of thousands of Native children through adoptions.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • My perfect Saturday begins slowly with a coffee in my house, catching the first sunlight.
    — Chadner Navarro, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of slowly
Adverb
  • This year, several projects moved away from a strictly realistic approach, embracing allegory, fantasy, the absurd and even myth.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The president has broad authority to issue pardons and commutations, but the power is strictly limited to federal offenses.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
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