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Recent Examples of minutely Finally, this sleeping pad also gets top marks for the adjustability, using the brand’s reliable flat-lock air valve that can be minutely adjusted for different inflation levels, and deflates in just a few seconds. Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2025 Ferguson has been leading a team to create a minutely detailed map of French Quarter streets, including permanent and temporary structures ranging from pavement types to signage. Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 29 Jan. 2025 The movie's pace picks up again as a new set of volunteers and paid professionals dig — using rigid standards and minutely recording their progress so that scientists around the world would accept the findings — under the Clovis levels, nine feet below the surface of the land. Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Oct. 2024 Shards of caribou bones and antlers lie on the tundra as ghostly business cards of a bygone migration, greened with mold, and minutely chiseled and mined for calcium by tiny vole teeth. Jon Waterman, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for minutely
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thoroughly
Adverb
  • But how? Here’s a start: • Consider everything, but consider it thoroughly.
    Drew Gerber, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • Martinez spoke thoroughly on the topic of not being a helicopter parent, rather guiding children to their own results.
    Morgan Kromer, The Washington Examiner, 20 June 2025

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“Minutely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minutely. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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