methodically
Americanadverb
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in a systematic and orderly way.
This serious book methodically reviews various new business models, leadership styles, and theories of value creation.
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in a slow and careful way; painstakingly.
Don't make the mistake of blazing your way through a chapter; instead, read deliberately and methodically.
Other Word Forms
- antimethodically adverb
- nonmethodically adverb
- quasi-methodically adverb
- unmethodically adverb
Etymology
Origin of methodically
Example Sentences
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Then, in the Zaporizhzhia region, workshops where enemy devices were dismantled, their entrails methodically examined, their secrets extracted piece by piece.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
"In order to get over them we have to act methodically, rigorously, and as a team."
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
Instead, Coogler methodically reminds the audience that this country has always been a multiracial kaleidoscope by meticulously portraying life in America just a century ago.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2026
It speaks to the way volunteers have had to methodically go about preserving the material, and symbolises her own slow processing of the attack.
From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026
Every day a team of people methodically sorted through the trash heaps in search of anything that might be at all useful.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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