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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How state argued before a federal appeals court The number of hate groups had minutely declined since 2021, but has been slowly rising in the years since.
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Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 9 July 2024
The movie's pace picks up again as a new set of volunteers and paid professionals dig — using rigid standards and minutely recording their progress so that scientists around the world would accept the findings — under the Clovis levels, nine feet below the surface of the land.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Oct. 2024
Shards of caribou bones and antlers lie on the tundra as ghostly business cards of a bygone migration, greened with mold, and minutely chiseled and mined for calcium by tiny vole teeth.
—Jon Waterman, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2024
The artist scanned the marshes that lie near Berlin, creating a minutely detailed, 3D simulation of the flora, fauna and wildlife that live there.
—Samantha Conti, WWD, 26 Sep. 2024
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Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 9 July 2024
The movie's pace picks up again as a new set of volunteers and paid professionals dig — using rigid standards and minutely recording their progress so that scientists around the world would accept the findings — under the Clovis levels, nine feet below the surface of the land.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Oct. 2024
Shards of caribou bones and antlers lie on the tundra as ghostly business cards of a bygone migration, greened with mold, and minutely chiseled and mined for calcium by tiny vole teeth.
—Jon Waterman, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2024
The artist scanned the marshes that lie near Berlin, creating a minutely detailed, 3D simulation of the flora, fauna and wildlife that live there.
—Samantha Conti, WWD, 26 Sep. 2024
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“Minutely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minutely. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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