exactly
Example Sentences
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It was not exactly shooting fish in a barrel, but close.
From Barron's
The December reading was exactly in line with the median forecast of a 2.3% increase in a Wall Street Journal poll of nine economists.
“You don’t know exactly where the destination is, so you don’t want to go slamming into the wall,” he said.
The task for scientists was to determine exactly how large that offset becomes, similar to defining a planetary time zone.
From Science Daily
There has been a delay in releasing the funds from the sale of Chelsea FC, which are currently frozen in a British bank account, due to a standoff over how exactly they should be used.
From BBC
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