CONSCIENTIOUSLY Synonyms: 11 Similar and Opposite Words

conscientiously

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as in carefully

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Recent Examples of conscientiously One way in which Wounaan do so is conscientiously sharing and redistributing food, money, wisdom and the like to foster equity. — Chenier Carpio Opua, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026 By thinking locally, building conscientiously, and operationalizing sustainability in our deployment choices, AI users, companies, and developers can also help ensure that the infrastructure powering our future doesn’t cost us the earth. — Sasha Luccioni, Time, 3 July 2026 The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, which teaches people how to conscientiously object to income levies, reports surging interest in its training sessions. — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026 An attorney general who cannot conscientiously defend a law owes his clients — the people of Florida — the duty of allowing a surrogate to do it. — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026 In 1938, Labor Secretary Frances Perkins advised that the disease could be prevented if dust controls were conscientiously applied. — Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026 The Kings are also a deep team, working conscientiously to pass the torch from the Kopitar/Doughty generation to Byfield, Brandt Clarke and beyond. — Murat Ates, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025

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Dry food can also work, but portions should be weighed carefully rather than left out for unlimited grazing.

— Lauren Paige Richeson, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Each flower must be picked and carefully dissected to remove three tiny red threads, known as stigmas.

— Callie Zanandrie, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026

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This analogy is strangely anticlimactic and almost consoling, but a pedestrian ending comes with the territory in a scrupulously realistic book about the inconceivable.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
The cleats, now scrupulously modeled in 3D simulations, originated as sharp metal nails, the kind sold at a local hardware store.

— Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 2 July 2026

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