precise
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For weekend cooks with other life responsibilities, minding a smoker to hold precise temperatures for hours, or even overnight, is difficult.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
Football is a sport of trade-offs and when South Korea pressed South Africa high, the Bafana Bafana stuck to their principles, playing it forward in a more precise manner.
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2026
Using the precise location measured by WXT, astronomers quickly directed major telescopes around the world toward the source.
From Science Daily • Jun. 26, 2026
Mr. Hayward’s answering bird noise is enthusiastic, if not entirely precise.
From Salon • Jun. 25, 2026
They had to be removed from their hooks in a very precise way, a way that anyone who didn’t already know was unlikely to figure out fast.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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