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This sense of precise is much less commonly used than the sense of exact or accurate.
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- She has the kind of precise personality that never has a cluttered desk or an out-of-fashion item in her closet.
- She is precise in her thinking, appearance, and movements.
- In the corresponding cubicle on the other side a small, precise-looking, dark— chinned man named Tillotson was working steadily away, with a folded newspaper on his knee and his mouth very close to the mouthpiece of the speakwrite.George Orwell -- 1984
- Her bearing is perhaps most like the noble bearing of the women of the Hereros of Southwest Africa—rather as if she imagines that as she walks she still bears a basket or a vessel upon her head. Her speech, on the other hand, is as careless as her carriage is precise—she is inclined to slur everything—Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun
- (MAMA repeats the phrase with precision and cool emotion) In my mother’s house there is still God.Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun
- Enunciating precisely but soundlessly: "There’s a white man at the door!"Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun
- BENEATHA: (Angrily, precisely as in the first scene of the play) What have you got to do with who I marry!Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun
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