as in systematically
with attention to all aspects or details
a minutely detailed analysis of the series of glitches that resulted in the blackout
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Often minutely detailed, with characteristically bold accents of color, some paintings feature eyes, faces in profile, and other more indeterminate forms, including dots and nets with which the artist’s name is synonymous.
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Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
Elliot makes films unlike anyone else’s: quirky, intimate, minutely observed, melancholy and funny in equal measure and very obviously made of clay.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 14 June 2024
In the case of the beamer, instead of an adjustable mirror scientists would have to minutely adjust each laser fiber to make the atmospheric correction.
—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2016
The central one is the music the band constructs in the studio, which is minutely tweaked and painstakingly considered.
—Jon Pareles, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2024
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Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
Elliot makes films unlike anyone else’s: quirky, intimate, minutely observed, melancholy and funny in equal measure and very obviously made of clay.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 14 June 2024
In the case of the beamer, instead of an adjustable mirror scientists would have to minutely adjust each laser fiber to make the atmospheric correction.
—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2016
The central one is the music the band constructs in the studio, which is minutely tweaked and painstakingly considered.
—Jon Pareles, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2024
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“Minutely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minutely. Accessed 27 Dec. 2024.
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