METHODICALLY Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

methodically

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Definition of methodically

as in systematically

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Recent Examples of methodically Trailing a play in transition during the third quarter, Kessler saw Doncic methodically probing the lane. — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 Investigators have been methodically sifting through the soil in layers, going down about 3 feet. — Joe Holden, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026 True North methodically marched through Norland’s defense on its opening possession before Katz decided to attack deep. — D’joumbarey Moreau, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026 The logistics of trackings and killings are calmly and methodically laid out. — Justin Chang, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026 While the human might try big gambles to come back from a significant deficit, Ataraxos would work its way back into the game slowly and methodically. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 1 Oct. 2026 The stock climbed methodically from the low $270s last fall, riding the rising 50-day the entire way with the 200-day providing the broader structural floor below. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026 Just as Grossman had to reconstruct the camp at Treblinka after attempts to erase it, so Littell methodically — at times forensically, through interviews with pathologists, survivors and grave diggers — recreates the killings in Bucha. — Nick Holdstock, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026 Then, Clancy methodically killed the kids one after another and then attempted suicide by throwing herself out of her second-story bedroom window, prosecutors said. — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026

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Police arrested him again in April 2023 and started combing through the forest more systematically and exhuming mass graves.

— Jefferson Kahinju Reuters, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
The Embodied Neurocomputation Framework treats this as an engineering problem, systematically optimizing information entering the neural network.

— Mike McRae October 19, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2026

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