strictly

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Wells Fargo said that the analysis’s characterization of banks financing of such companies as strictly loans was incorrect, since numbers in the analysis include commitments by credit facilities.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

The review also aimed to make the findings more relevant to real-world settings by looking beyond strictly clinical populations.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

“So, strictly speaking, the Heck language fits. But that could just show that the phrasing was not quite as tailored as it should have been.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

The deployment is part of France's recent bolstering of its military presence in the Middle East, which French President Emmanuel Macron described as strictly "defensive".

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

The fair taught men and women steeped only in the necessary to see that cities did not have to be dark, soiled, and unsafe bastions of the strictly pragmatic.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson