exact

Example Sentences

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It was the US intelligence agency that tracked the airman's exact location to the mountain crevice and passed the information along to the Pentagon.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

They are running a spreadsheet of stats on their own looks, following the theory that romance works the exact same way as fantasy-league football.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Although Nevada regulators investigated and fined the health practitioners involved in administering the peptides, investigators weren’t able to determine the exact cause of the reaction.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 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

That was the exact same thing she’d said before.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly