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Six example sentences with scrupulous, each labelled with its topic.
The auditor was scrupulous, tracing every receipt back to a bank line before she would sign the year's accounts.
Finance
Scrupulous about focus, he checked each frame at full magnification and reshot anything where an eyelash blurred.
Photography
A scrupulous pastry chef weighs flour to the gram, because a spoonful too much ruins the whole batch of macarons.
Cooking
Scrupulous about her lab notebook, she recorded every failed run in ink so nobody could later doubt what was tried.
Science
The clerk was scrupulous about deadlines, filing each brief a day early and keeping the receipt stamped in triplicate.
Law
The scout was scrupulous, logging every screen the forward set and how often his man got free.
Basketball
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