CONSCIENTIOUSLY Synonyms: 11 Similar and Opposite Words

conscientiously

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as in carefully

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Recent Examples of conscientiously 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 The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, which teaches people how to conscientiously object to income levies, reports surging interest in its training sessions. — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026 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. — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026 In 1938, Labor Secretary Frances Perkins advised that the disease could be prevented if dust controls were conscientiously applied. — Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026 The Kings are also a deep team, working conscientiously to pass the torch from the Kopitar/Doughty generation to Byfield, Brandt Clarke and beyond. — Murat Ates, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025

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But this year is different, and the roles are reversed; David and his uncle do the swapping while Peralta stands by to place each sticker carefully into the album.

— Maria Jose Gutierrez-Chavez, Curbed, 17 July 2026
Readers of the report may not be carefully attuned to the legal arguments used to justify anti-BDS legislation, but PEN America obviously is and so are the donors who support this work.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026

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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
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.

— Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2026

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