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- adverb In an
exacting manner.
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Examples
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Mr. Bulluck said Mr. Coughlin had specifically and exactingly warned the team Saturday night that Tennessee would try to provoke personal fouls.
Giants Reeling From Sloppy Play Aditi Kinkhabwala 2010
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Though there would be exceptions—Android and YouTube, for instance—most Google products, while exactingly rethought and tweaked during the design process, were similarly left to find their way in the world by themselves.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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The woman worked her way around the table in mechanical fashion, quickly, but exactingly.
True Story Cary Briel 2011
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But over the next nearly nine minutes, back-up quarterback Vince Young—playing because Michael Vick was out with two broken ribs—methodically, exactingly and painfully slowly moved the Eagles down field.
Giants Stunned at Home by the Eagles—Again Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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Though there would be exceptions—Android and YouTube, for instance—most Google products, while exactingly rethought and tweaked during the design process, were similarly left to find their way in the world by themselves.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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Those two tiny thumbs started letting each card down, slowly, and exactingly.
Shuffle Scott Robinson 2012
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Mathematics is a notoriously technical subject that prizes exactingly precise statements.
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This writer wants to explore a psychological state carefully and exactingly, in order to get a sense of its textures and contradictions, its surprising insights.
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Mathematics is a notoriously technical subject that prizes exactingly precise statements.
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More than this there is a sense that the emotional notes are perhaps muted, that we crave something more flawed, a more rugged and potholed contest, less exactingly marshalled and stewarded.
World Cup 2010: How a love of Spain can make for a sterile affair 2010
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