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exactitude

[ig-zak-ti-tood, -tyood] / ɪgˈzæk tɪˌtud, -ˌtjud /


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Ms. Margolles witnessed these outcomes first-hand in her earlier career as a forensic technician in Mexico City’s morgue, an experience that infuses her work with elements of scientific exactitude as well as ritualistic imagery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

That theory, in turn, has been elaborated with models and modern computing by exactitude culture.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2024

Here, you have guys who are recounting, with startling levels of exactitude, dialogue—“And actually, I said this and he said that”—with real specificity.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2023

But by the time the Buddha was delivering sermons, Sanskrit was used in his region mainly by a ruling class who found its exactitude useful in affairs of wealth.

From Salon ● May 21, 2023

So terrified was I that some irregularity would interfere with enlistment—some unforeseen objection—I perhaps answered with too great an exactitude, too punctilious a range of detail—desperate for approbation.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson


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