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- Together we spent hours meticulously cleaning the bugs out of the rice before we cooked it.†
meticulously = in a manner treating details with great care
- I therefore held to my assigned schedule meticulously, deviating only with purpose.
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- Returning to my house, we spent hours cleaning the scrawny bird and meticulously plucking out the feathers with tweezers before we could freeze it.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(meticulous) treating details with great care
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)