as in accuracy
the quality or state of being very accurate
after its opening weekend, a movie's final box office gross can be estimated with considerable exactitude
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Recent Examples of exactitude
Cove is much larger, with a more formal service style, but the exactitude is still there, the sense of stylishness, the obsession and the delight.
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Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
There’s no way to say, with any degree of exactitude, how many times a scene like that has played out during Ovechkin’s career.
—Sean Gentille, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Bigelow pulls the film together with the exactitude of a fighter pilot.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 3 Sep. 2025
But Hynes details life’s vicissitudes with poetic exactitude.
—Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
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Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
There’s no way to say, with any degree of exactitude, how many times a scene like that has played out during Ovechkin’s career.
—Sean Gentille, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Bigelow pulls the film together with the exactitude of a fighter pilot.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 3 Sep. 2025
But Hynes details life’s vicissitudes with poetic exactitude.
—Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exactitude
Noun
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The commitment to accuracy extended beyond the stage costumes.—
Lily Brown,
PEOPLE,
9 June 2026
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The kinds of language and reasoning models that can run locally on an iPhone or Mac are relatively small, limiting their capabilities and accuracy.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
9 June 2026
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For decades, however, the design remained largely impractical due to limitations in magnetic materials, manufacturing precision, and power control systems.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
7 June 2026
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Switzerland still had chances, including a late opportunity that substitute Cedric Itten headed over the crossbar in stoppage time, but the precision of the first half never fully returned.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 June 2026
Noun
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But our conversation ended up being so much about women and mothers generally, and how people in their lives create these illusions of normalcy and these illusions of perfection based on superficial stuff.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
6 June 2026
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Berenberg downgrades CrowdStrike to hold from buy Berenberg said the stock is priced to perfection.—
Michael Bloom,
CNBC,
5 June 2026
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“Exactitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exactitude. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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