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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Those entities, including combinations of actual banks, also acted and act as regulators par excellence precisely because no private entity lends blithely.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025 -
Generally, fighting cancer is about delivering a relentless attack on the spreading disease, but a new approach explores the possible benefits of toggling therapy off and on like a light switch, allowing oncologists to more precisely control drug action and potential side effects.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 July 2025
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“Strictly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strictly. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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