Meaning of carefully in English

carefully

adverb

/ˈkeə.fəl.i/ us

/ˈker.fəl.i/

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with great attention:

She carefully folded the letter and put it in her pocket.

Drive carefully on those icy roads.

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Follow the instructions on the back of the packet carefully.
If you listen carefully to this piece of music, you can hear a flute in the background.
The shop assistant wrapped the vase carefully in tissue paper.
Think about it very carefully before deciding.
She'd stitched the two pieces together really carefully so that you couldn't see the join.

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(Definition of carefully from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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carefully

adverb

/ˈkeər·fə·li/

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with great attention, esp. to detail or safety:

She carefully embroidered the pillow.

Drive carefully – it’s raining.

(Definition of carefully from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of carefully

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In the laboratory, rice stems were scraped9 and gut contents were carefully removed11.

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He surveys the sacred meals against a carefully assembled background of ordinary meal-taking and the general philosophy of food in each region.

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In studying the psychological effects of bilingualism, the time and circumstances of individuals' experiences with different languages and sociocultural settings should be carefully examined.

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One day before each new infestation the beans were carefully mixed to achieve a random distribution of host larvae.

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This misuses the effort the target article took to reason carefully.

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They should be checked very carefully before being submitted.

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The discussion provides a carefully contextualised examination of the reasons for this particular unlikely legal transformation.

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However, unless such cutbacks are carefully targeted, they may disproportionately penalize expenditures on environmental protection or poverty safety nets.

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However, if memorywork is the central focus for the oral history interviewer, then the relationship between interviewer and interviewee needs to be unpacked more carefully.

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Since the current recommendations favour mass distribution covering the entire population in endemic areas, these areas must be defined carefully.

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The existence of large-scale dynamics may create difficulties for certain statistical source estimation procedures, unless the validity of the underlying assumptions is evaluated carefully.

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However, our results show that serology, using a carefully defined cut-off, can be a highly sensitive technique for most of the course of infection.

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We usually think not, because we carefully define the application of counting so as to exclude the coalescing of drops.

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The dura was cut carefully to facilitate penetration of solutions.

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There was the same ability to listen carefully, the same ability to talk and to explain simply and straightforwardly.

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小心地, 仔細地, 認真地…

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