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[ig-zakt] / ɪgˈzækt /




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The supermarket worker from Wednesbury had been sent an "exact picture" of him sitting in a back garden and instantly believed he had been found, describing the day as an "emotional rollercoaster".

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Holly Madison remembers the exact moment she first saw her charming Hollywoodland tudor.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

Georgia, meanwhile, has taken the exact opposite approach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Determining the exact shortest distances across a massive network can consume enormous amounts of computing time and memory.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

I ran my palm over my smooth blond strands and caught myself wrinkling my nose in the exact way I’d just found obnoxious.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

That all-important cold chain exacts a cost from growers and distributors as well.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

It’s never been more challenging and expensive to live in California, a place of great bounty that often exacts in dollars and stress what it offers in opportunity and wondrous beauty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2026

The Magic City exacts a premium for the privilege.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

She exacts her revenge, yes, but it only makes her feel hollow.

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2025

And it exacts that toll in about six minutes.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Well, there are numerous contemporaneous examples of reparation payments exacted by European states, so you tell me.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

The report defines “forced labor” as “all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty for its nonperformance and for which the worker does not offer himself voluntarily.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

"Now more than ever it is imperative to avoid any escalation of a conflict that has already exacted a devastating toll on civilians and that risks making the search for peace even more distant."

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

It is unclear if payments are being exacted under the new system.

From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026

She walked the earth and exacted an oath from each thing that she encountered never to harm Balder the beautiful.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

Buffered by wealth and social position, Darwin was able to reconcile, like few of his peers, the secluded life of a country squire with the exacting demands of scientific work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Interiors by Stewart-Gulrajani merge architecture and artistry with exacting precision. Vaulted open-beam ceilings, vast picture windows, and refined finishes infuse each room with air, light, and composure,” the description added.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

The good news is, per Gifford, that there are less generalized models out there that are tailored to much more exacting needs.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

His reputation as an exacting director precedes him.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

There were application forms, twenty pages long, and thick, densely printed admission handbooks from Edinburgh and London whose methodical, exacting prose seemed to be a foretaste of a new kind of academic rigor.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan


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