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Recent Examples of minutely 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 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. Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for minutely

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“Minutely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minutely. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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