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Meticulous: meaning and example

adjective · In the sense illustrated below

Very careful about small details.

Example sentence

“His meticulous notes made the experiment easy to repeat.”

An illustrative sentence written for Ikigain.

Putting it into words

In a compliment

“Your meticulous notes saved us a lot of confusion.”

At work

“Meticulous in checking source references before publishing research summaries.”

This example illustrates a positive sense or context. The same word can have other meanings; choose it for what you actually want to say.

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