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 Instead, his navy jersey, meticulously embroidered with a white number 16 hangs unfettered with his unworn Bears helmet resting on a shelf above. — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026 Social media users have spent the last month meticulously gluing rhinestones to everyday objects, including coffee cups, skincare, phone cases, and even puppies. — Sarah Glodek, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026 In spite of the steadfast testimony of those who went over the antlers as meticulously as anyone could, there are still many detractors. — Richard P. Smith, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2026 The robbery was meticulously planned by the thieves; prior to the alarms going off at the museum, an alarm had gone off at the city’s sports center that authorities are calling suspicious. — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 27 Aug. 2026 Bex Claire Hamell, a houseplant educator and award-winning horticulturist, looks for common pests, including mealybugs, scale, thrips, aphids, and mites, and meticulously treats plants with visible infestations. — Rachel Gillett, Martha Stewart, 25 Aug. 2026 Prosecutors allege Clancy meticulously planned the killings by sending her husband out to do errands and strangling the children to death with exercise bands in the basement of their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home while he was gone. — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026 The result is a collection that can feel meticulously curated one moment and completely unpredictable the next. — Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026 Three people were required to place the canvas on the art studio wall, meticulously spreading each inch of canvas to remove any wrinkles. — Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meticulously
  1. carefully
  2. systematically
  3. scrupulously
  4. microscopically
  5. minutely
  6. exhaustively
  7. comprehensively
  8. thoroughly
Adverb
  • Explosives were carefully used to clear a path before army rescuers continued to meticulously dig by hand to reach any survivors inside.
    — Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
  • His carefully coiffed side parting is as immaculate as his smile, something which distinguishes him from the rest of his party whose members tend to grimace rather than grin.
    — Esme Nicholson, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of carefully
Adverb
  • County investigators say the insurer systematically underpaid and suppressed smoke-damage claims, leaving families unable to afford toxin testing or remediation and turning insurance into a barrier to long-term recovery.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The tenant, in other words, is systematically choosing counterparties that are younger than its own product line.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • Coming up with materials that will do that work is actually the easy part; turning them into the microscopically-thin film of a solar sail is the real challenge.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 31 May 2026
Definition of microscopically
Adverb
  • 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
  • The dozens of edits that Congress made have been minutely examined by historians and literary scholars.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Definition of minutely
Adverb
  • Preservation Connecticut’s searchable surveys, built in collaboration with the State Historic Preservation Office, exhaustively document historic barns, mills, artistic places, and town greens in every part of the state.
    — Jane Montanaro, Hartford Courant, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The events surrounding that night have been exhaustively investigated and recounted in numerous stories, documentaries and police investigations.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of exhaustively
Adverb
  • Hull City Hull City 2 Manchester United 0 This wasn’t in the script — Manchester United comprehensively beaten by everyone’s favourites to go down and Oli McBurnie, Hull’s bearded genius, running the show.
    — Stuart James, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • As growth continues expanding south of Orlando, communities have the chance to be planned comprehensively rather than pieced together over time.
    — Justin Onorato, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of comprehensively
Adverb
  • Hahn said that the opposing viewpoints could have been more thoroughly debated, had the project been subject to CEQA review.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Three turns on each side is sufficient to thoroughly lube the entire chain.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026
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