exactitude
noun
ex·ac·ti·tude
ig-ˈzak-tə-ˌtüd 
-ˌtyüd
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Examples of exactitude in a Sentence
after its opening weekend, a movie's final box office gross can be estimated with considerable exactitude
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That exactitude is most evident here in his lineup of crudos, a sharp and optimistic way to begin a meal.
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
The bones of superb physical antics are there, but the best farce approaches it with the exactitude of an Olympic gymnastics routine.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024
Likewise, reading old C code feels like engaging in the hermeneutics of ancient script, while Coq demands the exactitude of proving mathematical theorems.
—Sheon Han, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
There were notable practitioners in the generation before him (Patrick Leigh Fermor, Jan Morris, Norman Lewis, and Ryszard Kapuściński spring to mind), but Raban’s brilliantly digressive, sometimes confessional style—with its descriptive exactitude and sardonic undertow—signaled new possibilities.
—Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
The bones of superb physical antics are there, but the best farce approaches it with the exactitude of an Olympic gymnastics routine.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024
Likewise, reading old C code feels like engaging in the hermeneutics of ancient script, while Coq demands the exactitude of proving mathematical theorems.
—Sheon Han, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
There were notable practitioners in the generation before him (Patrick Leigh Fermor, Jan Morris, Norman Lewis, and Ryszard Kapuściński spring to mind), but Raban’s brilliantly digressive, sometimes confessional style—with its descriptive exactitude and sardonic undertow—signaled new possibilities.
—Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
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exactitude
noun
ex·ac·ti·tude
ig-ˈzak-tə-ˌt(y)üd
: the quality or state of being exact
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