as in carefully
without any relaxation of standards or precision
strictly speaking, Columbus did not discover America—the people living there had long known about it the rules must be strictly obeyed
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precisely
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Yet coverage remains inconsistent, leaving mothers like Jade vulnerable at precisely the point when serious risks like postpartum depression are most likely to emerge, and leaving employers to pick up the slack.—
Christine Michel Carter,
Forbes.com,
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First came the wind and rain, fast and fierce, and then the levees—which had been built by the Army Corps of Engineers to protect against precisely this kind of storm—broke, and the city filled up like a bathtub.—
Jeanie Riess,
New Yorker,
23 Aug. 2025
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“Strictly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strictly. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.
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