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The hamstring injury Mount suffered overextending his leg in the Manchester derby in December kept him out until March, and Amorim was careful to reintroduce him — and praised his diligence in returning to fitness.—
Laurie Whitwell,
New York Times,
25 July 2025 -
The trailer is careful to showcase the film’s scale – fighter planes soar, speedboats roar, trains careen, and cities flash by in a blur – while keeping plot details tantalizingly out of reach.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
25 July 2025
Adjective
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New hires can't learn by example because there's no one to watch, and conscientious peers can't see when newcomers are struggling.—
David Meade,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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Each one should be the result of a deliberate, conscientious decision by the only person elected to make it.—
Sreedhar Potarazu,
Baltimore Sun,
19 July 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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For centuries, only a small circle of women in the village of Lula knew how to make the pasta, passing down the painstaking technique through generations.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
16 July 2025
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This mentality along with the team that does this incredibly creative and painstaking work will now be applied to the entire Hyatt Lifestyle Group portfolio.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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Montse Tomé is the attentive personality spurring the current crop on from the sidelines.—
Henry Flynn,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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If used in combination with an attentive human, however, the technology could prove highly effective at reducing the number of traffic fatalities on European roads.—
Christiaan Hetzner,
Fortune,
22 July 2025
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Though beefy humanoids like Boston Dynamics’ Atlas have been able to perform terrifyingly impressive feats of acrobatics for the better part of a decade, many of those feats were scripted and the result of meticulous coding and fine-tuning by human engineers.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
23 July 2025
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Their ‘Rare Handcrafts’ models showcase the delicate art of hand engraving under a binocular microscope, creating a newfound appreciation for the meticulous work of jewelry and watchmakers.—
Anna Haines,
AFAR Media,
23 July 2025
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Some analysts, including those at Barclays, have also pointed out that there could be potential deceleration in the second half, keeping cautious ratings despite the company’s optimistic outlook.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Aston Martin Formula One driver Fernando Alonso has revealed a cautious approach in the wet-weather racing argument after the previous race at Spa-Francorchamps saw the FIA delay the race start by 80 minutes due to rain.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Aug. 2025
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Jennifer Kale is a witch who is very guarded and needs to learn how to trust people, and keeps getting tested on that over and over again throughout the show.—
Brande Victorian,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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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 6 Aug. 2025.
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