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as in: about noon; 12:03 to be precise Define
exact (accurate)
- It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that ... concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
- Precisely at that point it vanished — and I was looking at an elegant young rough-neck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd.
- Is it precise enough if I measure to the closest inch?
- The detective is talking to all the witnesses to try to determine the precise sequence of events.
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as in: about noon; 12:03 to be precise Define
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meticulous (careful about details)
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