precisely
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The author rightly leaves an air of mystery when we reach the limits of understanding: “Something—and it is hard to say precisely what that was from our vantage point 7,000 years later—snapped.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
These molecules are short strands of DNA that can bind very precisely to specific DNA or RNA sequences and block gene activity.
From Science Daily • May 1, 2026
Yet this is precisely where the current monetary policy framework fails.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
It's precisely the complexity of Muirhead's personality that makes her such a compelling figure as, according to Allott, she "was articulate and intelligent, a promising young pathologist with eight years of medical training".
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
More precisely, these ratios had to be written in the form a/b, where a and b were nice, neat counting numbers like 1, 2, or 47.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing precisely
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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