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Because Arthur and his lookalike neighbor are so physically similar, the poster and her neighbors have to be careful not to mix them up.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025 -
This requires sterile environments and careful selection of the substrate.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Now, in the years since his brother's death, Melvin says he's become increasingly conscientious about his own health.—
Alex Ross,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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Lawyers, over decades, tend to become more conscientious but less agreeable.—
Dave Winsborough,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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His style, as carefully layered as his father’s clothing, is one of punctilious paradox—the paradox being that Dyer is always performing not performing.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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The following top 10 best horror movies of 2024 are all quality films that will stand the test of time thanks to their punctilious craft.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
1 Jan. 2025
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In months of painstaking reporting, Brown turned the focus back on Epstein’s victims, managing to identify 80 of them, track down 60, and persuade eight to talk for her stories.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
17 Sep. 2025
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Now McBride, Shamshiri and their partners, Tiger King co-creator Eric Goode (the hotel’s lead designer) and restaurateur Warner Ebbink, have returned the 2-acre property to its old California roots, reviving the original name and undertaking a painstaking restoration.—
Degen Pener,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Sep. 2025
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Contributions spike dramatically in the two months prior to an election, precisely when candidates are vulnerable, and voters are most attentive.—
John J. Donohue,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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Dōgon is alluringly dim and powered by an army of attentive servers.—
The Bon Appétit Staff,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Still, for all the meticulous panning, the transition of power at the top of the City hierarchy is very different to what was expected to happen when Guardiola arrived in 2016.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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Potashnick took skepticism as an invitation to share his process, bringing his roughly 100,000 TikTok followers behind the scenes and on frequent farm trips, offering a glimpse of his team’s meticulous operation.—
The Bon Appétit Staff,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
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Employers increasingly wonder whether campuses are cultivating independent thinkers or just cautious followers.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The sum dwarfs most acquisitions this year — and marks TIFF’s first eight-figure deal in several editions — underlining the resilience of genre cinema at a time when studios and streamers alike are cautious.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Sep. 2025
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Selena Gomez as Mabel Mora Gomez earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Mabel, a guarded and sarcastic millennial who strikes up an unexpected friendship with Charles and Oliver.—
Olivia Singh,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Our spirits remain guarded, but high, for this one; the Venice Film Festival crowd seemed to eat it up.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
3 Sep. 2024
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“Nonnegligent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonnegligent. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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