to be exact

idiom

—used to indicate that a statement is accurate and specific

that afternoon, June 22, to be exact

They had many children—seven, to be exact.

He came a long way—from Nome, Alaska, to be exact—to attend the wedding.

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Love Is Blind season 8 premiered last week on Netflix—Valentine’s Day, to be exact—and though only six episodes of the season have aired, audiences are already criticizing the show, calling out its lack of diversity as well as its lack of drama. —

Monique Wilson, Glamour, 18 Feb. 2025 So, there’s a pretty wide gap (48 picks to be exact) between their first and second picks. —

Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 12 Feb. 2025 Time, 60 minutes to be exact, on Sunday, will show the football world whether that is true or false. —

Scott Thompson, Fox News, 6 Feb. 2025 On four walls are a series of magnetic spheres and copper coils wound around the back of small metal plates and attached to the wall by aluminum rods — 86 coils to be exact along with 43 pendulums. —

Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for to be exact