accurately
adverb
ac·cu·rate·ly
ˈa-kyə-rət-lē 
ˈa-k(ə-)rət-,
ˈa-k(y)ərt-
: in an accurate manner : without mistakes or errors
It is very difficult to predict the weather accurately.
The book's title does not accurately reflect its subject.
For the first time, Europeans could accurately visualize their continent in a way that enabled them to improvise new navigational routes instead of simply going from point to point.—
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The reports, crucial to the design of building foundations, show a long-running struggle to accurately predict the amount of sinking and continuing questions over how to curb it.
—Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 1 Dec. 2025
The survey design allows the DNR to more accurately estimate fishing pressure from anglers who stay on the ice for days at a time in deluxe wheelhouses.
—Brad Dokken, Twin Cities, 30 Nov. 2025
When reading the script, Burn saw — or, perhaps more accurately, heard — what a dynamic ambient soundscape could do to bodily pull viewers into Agnes’s world, if it were paired with the right approach to cinematography.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 28 Nov. 2025
This handheld electronic scale accurately reads the weight of your carry-on or checked luggage, saving you time and money at the baggage check-in counter.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2025
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Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 1 Dec. 2025
The survey design allows the DNR to more accurately estimate fishing pressure from anglers who stay on the ice for days at a time in deluxe wheelhouses.
—Brad Dokken, Twin Cities, 30 Nov. 2025
When reading the script, Burn saw — or, perhaps more accurately, heard — what a dynamic ambient soundscape could do to bodily pull viewers into Agnes’s world, if it were paired with the right approach to cinematography.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 28 Nov. 2025
This handheld electronic scale accurately reads the weight of your carry-on or checked luggage, saving you time and money at the baggage check-in counter.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for accurately
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“Accurately.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accurately. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
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