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treating details with great care
- Their ace jury consultant, Myron Pankey, was going on about their meticulous research when Herschel arrived.p. 479.9
- Jake found a pair of scissors and meticulously cut a thin ribbon of paper from one end of the envelope, the end opposite the return address, close to the stamp but far enough away to preserve everything.p. 27.1
- It covered two pages, and the handwriting was in near perfect lines, as though Seth had meticulously used a straightedge of some variety.p. 31.6
- He'd been an all-American at Alcorn State in the mid-1970s and, evidently, had been meticulous about preserving his memories.p. 34.8
- Over the last month, he had meticulously cleaned out his desk and drawers and taken away everything of interest.p. 52.8
- On the one hand, he seems to have planned his death in meticulous detail, as if he knew exactly what he was doing.p. 99.6
- Cheating was often hard to cover and required meticulous planning, but they were skilled.p. 333.9
There are no more uses of "meticulous" in Sycamore Row.
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