scrupulous
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DePetro isn’t especially scrupulous about what he allows on his social feeds.
From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026
Snehal Desai’s direction is politically clear-eyed and scrupulous.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026
Knowing that Viollet-le-Duc’s restorations were based on scrupulous archaeological research, we naturally expect his drawings to be technical in nature.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
Nonetheless, the portfolio’s impressive return reminds us of the need to cultivate scrupulous objectivity when digesting the financial news.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 24, 2025
The new attitude to evidence, which Sprat had praised as ‘this Inquiring, this scrupulous, this incredulous Temper’, had encouraged a general scepticism of miracles, providences and witchcraft.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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