exactitude
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Knowing with such calibrated exactitude what Harry Potter etc. would be worth to Netflix until the end of time is quite a feat.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
That theory, in turn, has been elaborated with models and modern computing by exactitude culture.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2024
Astrology cannot predict the future with exactitude every time — the story that you think is going to happen rarely does — but it never fails to give me the lesson I need the most.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2023
With similar racial exactitude, Justice Neil Gorsuch demanded to know how universities would classify individuals from Middle Eastern countries.
From Slate • Jul. 5, 2023
So terrified was I that some irregularity would interfere with enlistment—some unforeseen objection—I perhaps answered with too great an exactitude, too punctilious a range of detail—desperate for approbation.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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