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Six example sentences with punctilious, each labelled with its topic.
The referee was punctilious about the jump ball circle, resetting both players twice before the whistle finally sounded.
Basketball
Border staff there are punctilious, checking each stamp, each date, and the spelling on every page of your passport.
Travel
The copyist was punctilious, matching every slur and rest to the composer's manuscript before the parts went to the players.
Music
The clerk was punctilious about filing dates, stamping each document with the minute it arrived at the counter.
Law
The pastry chef is punctilious, weighing flour to the gram and refusing to bake if the oven runs two degrees hot.
Cooking
A punctilious auditor traced every receipt back to a signed order, and the review took three weeks longer than planned.
Finance
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