exact
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"Which is the exact same way that I feel."
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Like, if he want it done right, he gonna show you the exact way how to do it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Scientists cannot determine exact behavior from anatomy alone, but these findings provide new clues about how the dodo may have located food and interacted with its island habitat.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
Many states use a 183-day threshold as part of their residency rules, although the exact standards vary by state.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 8, 2026
That would be incredibly stupid since she’d done the exact same thing to me once.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
That all-important cold chain exacts a cost from growers and distributors as well.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
But it, too, exacts a high environment cost.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
The problem with this conception is the opportunity cost it exacts on the American reading public.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
The Magic City exacts a premium for the privilege.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
Therefore, enviously, gloatingly, he exacts vengeance upon us for the unalterable deficiencies in his own life.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
But Belafonte’s celebrity exacted a toll, as he documented in a late-life autobiography that Mr. Jelly-Schapiro draws on heavily.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Well, there are numerous contemporaneous examples of reparation payments exacted by European states, so you tell me.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 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
Again the golf course exacted demands that induced the Swede's crucial errors as he found water on the 11th and 12th holes.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
Up close, it was plain the burden of so many souls had exacted its toll.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
His reputation as an exacting director precedes him.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
The government's "ambitious target" to halve the gap was "right and welcome", she added, but said it had to be "more exacting" about how to achieve it.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Enphase is still working on its design, but is confident it will be able to meet the tech companies’ exacting standards.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
The process takes time and is physically exacting; the women must beat the cloth together in rhythm, and to do so they use a tool more commonly associated with sailors pulling ropes: They sing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
And toward himself he was even more exacting.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing exact
The Merchant of Venice
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Common Core Grade 5, List 7
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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, Chapters 1–3
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