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
"Determining the circumstances and cause of an aviation accident is a careful and methodical process, and we will not speculate about what occurred," the company said.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 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
Social media users will not necessarily apply "the methodical and journalistic standards" of professional fact-checkers, said Carlos Rodriguez, a professor at Colombia's Universidad de La Sabana.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The man Jack was methodical, and he began to plan his next move—the calls he would need to pay on certain of the townsfolk, people who would be his eyes and ears in the town.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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