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Six example sentences with fastidious, each labelled with its topic.
The chef is fastidious about knife work, sending back any dice whose cubes differ by more than a millimeter.
Cooking
A fastidious clerk caught the error, noticing that one date in the four-hundred-page filing was off by a day.
Law
He is fastidious about his setup, aligning the mouse pad and wiping every key before a ranked match begins.
Gaming
The pianist is fastidious about the bench height, measuring it with a tape before every concert in a new hall.
Music
A fastidious bookkeeper reconciles every receipt to the cent, and the annual audit takes an afternoon instead of a month.
Finance
The fastidious architect rejected three batches of brick because their color shifted slightly between kilns.
Architecture
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