meticulously

adverb

Definition of meticulouslynext
1
as in carefully

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2
as in systematically

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Recent Examples of meticulously Our celebrations were led by women, my grandmother, mother, and aunts, who would meticulously clean the house and spend weeks preparing snacks and sweets. — Rachel Gurjar, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Nov. 2026 But that didn't stop him from meticulously researching every last ballot proposition and candidate. — Saige Miller, NPR, 30 Oct. 2026 Nocturne saddles him with not only a dead child but a dead wife and a dead partner as well, all the better to cement Schreiber’s meticulously grizzled face in an expression of pained stoicism. — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2026 Using the fragments from the hornbill’s original beak and a CT scan, ARTIS meticulously reconstructed the original shape. — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2026 Morgen spent years meticulously remastering Hemmings’ 35mm film and configuring it for multiple screens. — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 27 Oct. 2026 While Barlow normally kept her car meticulously clean, Kramer said the recovered vehicle had been completely trashed inside and looked as though it had been driven under a fence. — Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026 Hundreds of sauces meticulously arranged in neat rows, like soldiers standing at attention, greet us. — Vanessa Anderson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026 The historic home, which is more than 110 years old, had been meticulously restored and used as a guest house by Arsht. — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meticulously
  1. carefully
  2. systematically
  3. scrupulously
  4. microscopically
  5. minutely
  6. exhaustively
  7. comprehensively
  8. thoroughly
Adverb
  • That's a particularly important part of the equation because two-stroke engines rely heavily on carefully tuned exhaust systems to manage gas flow and extract performance.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Nov. 2026
  • No security tool catches every threat, so continue checking unexpected messages carefully.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of carefully
Adverb
  • Given a candidate for universal operations, this program systematically explores all possibilities to express the 36 elementary functions, numbers and important constants.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The opinion also cited the National Voter Registration Act, which bars states from systematically removing ineligible voters within 90 days of a federal election.
    — Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of systematically
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
  • When a piece of plastic breaks down into microscopically small components, its total surface area goes up exponentially.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The only natural safeguard your body has against UV light is a microscopically thin layer of a pigment called melanin in your epidermis.
    — Guy German, The Conversation, 18 June 2026
Definition of microscopically
Adverb
  • Your own search will factor into this list, reorienting its order, however minutely.
    — Artforum, Artforum, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Roman, however, can uniquely sift through Andromeda’s stars much more minutely because of its wider field of view.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of minutely
Adverb
  • Comparison shopping more exhaustively can be just that, exhausting.
    — Lindsay Owens, as told to Nina Zipkin, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
  • It has also only been trained on a limited number of cell types that biologists have studied exhaustively.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of exhaustively
Adverb
  • Overall productivity must be calculated comprehensively, evaluating the net output gains against all the industrial subsidies, bad debts, foregone profits, and indirect support for investment that the government has provided.
    — Oliver Melton, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The time required for those steps, when done comprehensively, may be significantly reduced with AI.
    — Maureen Metcalf, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of comprehensively
Adverb
  • Moisture trapped in thick cushions and filling can cause musty odors, so drying the bed thoroughly is essential.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2026
  • One reason Simmons is praised so thoroughly is the character matches the performance.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026
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