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to be pre·cise

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. properly speaking, strictly speaking, to be preciseadverb

    in actual fact

    "properly speaking, they are not husband and wife"

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of to be precise in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of to be precise in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of to be precise in a Sentence

  1. Dejan Stojanovic:

    Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

  2. Tony Schiena:

    Their attacks are precise and coordinated, using guerilla warfare tactics, including suicide bombers and other tactics and techniques learned from ISIS, with their allegiance to ISIS, they are also invariably well-funded and have access to sophisticated weaponry.

  3. Scott Sheppard:

    It’s fairly faint. We don’t know its precise orbit yet and we don’t know anything about its chemical composition, we can guess at its size. We don’t know how much light it reflects. If it reflects a lot of light, if it’s very bright, it will be a smaller object. If it’s a darker object and doesn’t reflect much light, it would be much bigger.

  4. Baba Faiz:

    What if we use Einstein's special theory of relativity to freeze time? The reason is simple and precise. The idea of freezing time is to freeze our love; Love always young and charming.

  5. Lionel Trilling:

    Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.


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