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punctually

adverb as in duly

adverb as in on time

adverb as in sharp

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Further, these microbes arrived punctually at specific time points throughout the 21-day observation period.

In the email, the worker acknowledged the potential changes "won't be popular" but added services had to operate punctually.

From BBC

Kay Redfield Jamison arrives punctually at a towering marble statue of Jesus Christ in the entrance of the old hospital building on Johns Hopkins Medical Campus.

When her mother discovers “honey-crusted teaspoons” in Daphne’s sock drawer, “she knew better than to confront me with them. They just disappeared punctually. She did that for me, my mother, discreetly evacuating my greatest shames, which were also her own.”

Moving throngs through hundreds of airports, seating them on thousands of complex machines, and transporting them to their various destinations safely and punctually is a colossal logistical challenge for thousands of pilots, air traffic controllers, maintenance workers, flight attendants, reservation agents and — yes — TSA personnel.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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