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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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
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
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 46000 for the first time—as the stock market methodically rises against a backdrop of new tariffs and concerns on the economy.
They are methodically consolidating the trillion-dollar advertising industry—and displacing the creative workers who once powered it.
However long it takes to unravel your current life, you have methodically gone through the necessary steps to arrive at an informed decision about your future retirement destination abroad.
From MarketWatch
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