How to Use meticulous in a Sentence
meticulous
adjective
- He described the scene in meticulous detail.
- He is meticulous about keeping accurate records.
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The show feels much less meticulous in that way these days.
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Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
29 Jan. 2024
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Their meticulous work was a reminder to me of the beauty of those lights.
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Jacques Kelly,
baltimoresun.com,
14 July 2018
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George is very meticulous in the studio and has his own process.
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Matt Wake,
AL.com,
10 Apr. 2018
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All of the above is a how years' worth of meticulous planning goes up in flames.
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Andrew Sharp,
SI.com,
16 June 2019
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The meticulous process takes from half an hour to an hour per person.
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Joohee Cho,
ABC News,
27 Feb. 2020
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Craft bartenders tend to think about drinks in a meticulous way.
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Washington Post,
19 Oct. 2020
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Be meticulous about scrubbing the underside of the rim, as well as the trap.
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Susannah Herrada,
Washington Post,
3 Nov. 2022
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Zhao was just as meticulous with the van-dweller landscape.
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Abby Aguirre,
Vogue,
10 Dec. 2020
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Even the most meticulous folders seem to struggle with them.
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Womansday.com Staff,
Woman's Day,
13 Mar. 2017
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That went to a meticulous move of flooding them, to bring them in line with the original.
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John Hopewell,
Variety,
18 Dec. 2023
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But as the film soon makes clear thanks to its meticulous detail, there is in fact an answer of a kind.
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Dorothy Rabinowitz,
WSJ,
18 Feb. 2021
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The ceremony is both meticulous and paced fast enough to fit the sheer volume of death in.
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Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
10 Dec. 2020
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Of course the back end is so important now, and all of that has to be worked out in meticulous detail.
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Adrienne Westenfeld,
Town & Country,
9 Sep. 2015
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As long as the virus continues to spread unchecked, even the most meticulous plans seem doomed to failure.
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Tim Dahlberg,
Star Tribune,
27 July 2020
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As a neighbor, he was known for taking meticulous care of his lawn.
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Doug Stanglin,
USA TODAY,
27 Apr. 2018
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None of this would work without meticulous care and control.
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Michele Filgate,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2021
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The home is also filled with priceless royal items that will need to be cleaned with meticulous care.
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Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Nov. 2020
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The meticulous planning, the skilled improv, the binoculars, the bit of harsh truth that makes the lie too big to fail.
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Darren Franich,
EW.com,
4 Apr. 2022
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Liao has managed to almost bend the march of time with a meticulous process, and chefs and home cooks are eating it up.
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Stephanie Breijo,
Los Angeles Times,
4 May 2023
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All of this involves meticulous planning, which has been in the works since early spring.
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The Editorial Board,
WSJ,
22 Dec. 2020
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My father earned a very good living and was a meticulous planner.
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Amy Dickinson,
Anchorage Daily News,
13 June 2018
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Rubell and Schrager were skimming vast amounts of cash from the till, and keeping meticulous records of those sums.
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John Defore,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Jan. 2018
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All of them went to prison for bank robbery, despite meticulous plans that sometimes took years to hatch.
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Dugan Arnett,
BostonGlobe.com,
26 Nov. 2022
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Hunt was meticulous in her research about the battles, generals, and dates of the war.
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Sarah Schutte,
National Review,
13 Feb. 2022
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Cursed with cold hands, Edelen is meticulous about his pregame warmup.
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J.l. Kirven,
The Courier-Journal,
24 Dec. 2021
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My hosting style is simple and laid back, but my cooking is meticulous.
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Café Appliances,
Bon Appétit,
26 Nov. 2019
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Levine said his friend was always meticulous and thorough.
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Caroline Silva,
ajc,
2 Mar. 2022
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She was very much the craftswoman, all her work meticulous, slow, perfect.
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Simon Winchester,
The Professor and the Madman,
1998
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