punctiliousness

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Noun
  • The sweeps, in addition to crowd-management responsibilities, are typically dealt with by local police, who often have more experience and training in de-escalating large demonstrations and tamping down civil unrest.
    Anna Schecter, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Glenn initially planned to keep Engstrand on staff while reducing his responsibilities, including stripping him of play-calling duties.
    Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • This patience is watchfulness, not idleness.
    Francois Botha, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Proving this will require experiments that directly test how the rhythm affects brain cleaning, vigilance, and survival.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Italy’s own history, including the consequences of fascist racial laws and deportations, has shaped a national commitment to remembrance, education and vigilance.
    Brian Siegal, Sun Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Once viewed as mere support cells for neurons, astrocytes are now thought to help tune brain circuits and thereby control overall brain state or mood — say, our level of alertness, anxiousness, or apathy.
    Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Caffeine Caffeine can increase energy and alertness and is found in energy drinks and certain dietary supplements, such as those that keep you alert and from falling asleep.
    Karen Berger, Verywell Health, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In this encomium to mindfulness, Wallace tells a tale of two fish swimming along, oblivious of the fact of water, the medium of their own existence.
    Hermione Hoby, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The idea is to connect with nature and experience mindfulness.
    Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The victims, all elementary school students, got into difficulty in a frozen pond in Bonham, a city about 60 miles northeast of Dallas, triggering a desperate effort by their mother and a neighbor to save them, FOX 4 reported.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The project also reflects Beijing’s broader effort to anchor long-term energy security with low-carbon baseload power.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Electronic waste from phones, laptops and more contains high concentrations of valuable metals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, copper, gold and silver.
    Kristen Edgreen Kaufman, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The concentration of public art is remarkable for a town of just over 300 residents.
    Audrey T. Williams, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
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“Punctiliousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/punctiliousness. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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