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Recent Examples of scrupulously
The studio’s contents had been scattered after his death, in 1972, so putting the whole thing back together again, as scrupulously as circumstances permitted, was a feat both curatorial and imaginative.
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Bruce Handy, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with the American Academy of Pediatrics, maintains that the childhood vaccine schedule is scrupulously researched to offer the most robust protection in the fewest amount of shots.
—Erika Edwards, NBC news, 1 Nov. 2025
The business ends of her tools are scrupulously clean, but the pale, slightly discoloured wooden handles have bits of old clay caked to them.
—Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
In short, in both proclamations Lincoln was a consummate lawyer who paid exquisite attention to questions of constitutionality and scrupulously honored his oath of office to act under the Constitution, not over or outside it.
—Akhil Reed Amar, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
Bruce Handy, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with the American Academy of Pediatrics, maintains that the childhood vaccine schedule is scrupulously researched to offer the most robust protection in the fewest amount of shots.
—Erika Edwards, NBC news, 1 Nov. 2025
The business ends of her tools are scrupulously clean, but the pale, slightly discoloured wooden handles have bits of old clay caked to them.
—Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
In short, in both proclamations Lincoln was a consummate lawyer who paid exquisite attention to questions of constitutionality and scrupulously honored his oath of office to act under the Constitution, not over or outside it.
—Akhil Reed Amar, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrupulously
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In part, the McKinley administration standardized various press protocols and routines involved in managing the press corps—holding somewhat regular briefings, for example, and carefully timing White House announcements.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Nov. 2025
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The handsewn and carefully backstitched quilts feature colorful images of buffalo heads, turtles, eagles, angels and other patterns that come to Water in her dreams.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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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
Adverb
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There's nothing worse than meticulously caring for a lemon tree, only to harvest it at the wrong time or using the wrong method.—
Helena Madden,
Martha Stewart,
6 Jan. 2026
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Eric LaChapelle, project manager at Maier Design Group, an architectural design firm in Hartford, said the stainless steel and other elements had to be meticulously catalogued so the pieces of what could be compared to a puzzle would go back together.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
4 Jan. 2026
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“Scrupulously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrupulously. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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