as in systematically
with attention to all aspects or details
a minutely detailed analysis of the series of glitches that resulted in the blackout
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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for minutely
thoroughly
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Rinse the grate, then dry thoroughly with a soft, clean towel.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
1 July 2025
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Carolina thoroughly deserved its early lead, to the exact same degree Florida deserved its hole.—
Greg Cote
June 29,
Miami Herald,
29 June 2025
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“Minutely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minutely. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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