scrupulosity
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This scrupulosity primed him to recognize the singular nature of what the Founders had achieved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
And no one could question the skill and scrupulosity with which the artist rendered the delicate tones of the distant mountains, the clouds, the subtropical foliage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
There was no attempt to get to the bottom of what really happened, no rigor, no scrupulosity, no care for the actual event.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 23, 2019
When you look closely at this golden age of regulatory scrupulosity, the real driver is innovation.
From Forbes ● Apr. 15, 2014
He was, his son remembered, morally meticulous, and though Ishmael might strive to emulate this, there was nevertheless this matter of the war— this matter of the arm he’d lost—that made such scrupulosity difficult.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Whereto he replied, that such scrupulosities, however praiseworthy in calmer times, ought now to yield to the paramount consideration of saving a soul alive.
From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 by Willis, Herbert
Whereto he replied, that such scrupulosities, however praiseworthy in calmer tines, ought now to yield to the paramount consideration of saving a soul alive.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various
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