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The crowd-sourced data provides many more measurements but without the same exact comparability of more planned phone tests.

From Fortune

Nobody’s sure of the exact stats on the mosaic of Kebler groves in the Gunnison National Forest, but researchers suspect they could be bigger.

County and precinct analyses have some limitations, and more detailed research will help us nail down exact shifts among demographic groups.

Next, Malik hopes to do more studies to understand the exact function of Nicknack.

Which is just fine since I’ve come up with a scheduling Ur-theory of life which, in an exhaustive series of cases that I’ve considered success or failure, hinges every time on doing the exact right thing at the right time.

From Ozy

The unemployed have a right to be anxious about the ravages on their families exacted by their unemployment.

I really think this season is about the toll that is exacted on intelligence officers doing their work.

Shortly after, a mob of Buddhists exacted retribution by pulling over a bus carrying Muslims and beating 10 passengers to death.

But all too often, the price exacted for behaving like a human being is far too dear.

It turned out all those years of keeping the flying public safe had exacted a physical toll on the one guy not on the radar: me.

She reached forward to it in ecstasy; but she might not enjoy it, save at the price which her conscience exacted.

Thus, all that has been said of the pretended adoration exacted by Alexander is founded on ambiguity.

And there, to be frank, she forgot her fright in as bitter a tribute of seasickness as even the channel has ever exacted.

Chastity, necessitated by vast designs, exacted by so many sickly conditions, was written upon that face.

The most obdurate heart could not have exacted further patience, and Cæsar instantly gave in.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to exacted, such as: imposed, prescribed, required, sanctioned, advocated, and charged.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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