exact
Example Sentences
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A senior official also told CBS that the CIA played a crucial in the rescue mission by tracking the airman in a mountain crevice and passing his exact location to the Pentagon.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
NAR evangelist Sean Feucht posted to Facebook: “President Trump posts the exact prophetic word about him from Kim Clement in Redding, California in 2007.”
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026
She added that “I have stayed away from AI altogether in writing lately to avoid this exact scenario.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Researchers focused on identifying the exact position of Saturn's cusp -- a region where magnetic field lines bend back toward the poles and allow charged particles to funnel into the atmosphere.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
Even Daniel, distracted as he always was, would have noticed the heavy feeling behind this, but that was the exact moment Alicia rose from her seat and walked up the aisle to the hawk.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.