methodical
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Perhaps it was fate that a woman with that last name would become a house manager, a new kind of job for the highly methodical and operations-minded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Over the summer, the Three Lions found ways to win but often leaned on scrappy moments of brilliance rather than methodical dominance.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
"It's a very limited test that kicks off a methodical process of increasingly complex tasks that help us prepare for the instrument's future observations."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
The dominant rushing attack that earned them four lopsided wins to start the season was more methodical than punishing, but Cleveland High still ground out a 24-18 nonleague victory Friday over host Crenshaw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
There were application forms, twenty pages long, and thick, densely printed admission handbooks from Edinburgh and London whose methodical, exacting prose seemed to be a foretaste of a new kind of academic rigor.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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