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  • adjective Excessively precise; more exacting than is needed

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Examples

  • Becoming overprecise, they slow their guns and shoot behind.

    Five Golf Tips To Help You Stop Missing Birds With Your Shotgun 2009

  • The diction was overprecise, the voice thin and muffled behind a black silk surgical mask cut from the same cloth as the woman's high-necked dress.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

  • The diction was overprecise, the voice thin and muffled behind a black silk surgical mask cut from the same cloth as the woman's high-necked dress.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

  • The diction was overprecise, the voice thin and muffled behind a black silk surgical mask cut from the same cloth as the woman's high-necked dress.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

  • Meredith Whitney's ridiculously overprecise Goldman EPS estimates -

    Felix Salmon - All posts 2009

  • Meredith Whitney's ridiculously overprecise Goldman EPS estimates -

    Felix Salmon - All posts 2009

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