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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His unit was almost deployed to Afghanistan in 2001, then in 2005 it was deployed to Iraq: more precisely, to Falluja, then one of the deadliest zones of the conflict.—
Dina Litovsky,
New York Times,
19 May 2025 -
The idea was seen as an impossibility, Xu said, because scientists hadn’t yet figured out a way to precisely target a treatment area to control the process of cavitation.—
Kristen Jordan Shamus,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
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“Strictly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strictly. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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