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How to use the word exactly in a Sentence?

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If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

– Robert Anton Wilson

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5 months ago

This is not locker room talk, it’s exactly what he did to Ms. Carroll and other women.

– Shawn Crowley

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1 year ago

This kind of hateful rhetoric from an elected official is exactly why tragedies such as the Covenant Christian School shooting in Nashville occurred.

– Freedom Caucus

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1 year ago

We need leaders who believe in doing big things - like creating the jobs and companies of the future from the AV to Santa Clarita, that’s exactly what I’ve done: creating 700 jobs in the Antelope Valley alone. I’m running because I believe that our best days are ahead of us.

– George Whitesides

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1 year ago

The Biden administration inherited a deadline without a clear plan of how to get there, but they then undertook their own review. And in April, Biden decided to go ahead with it and delayed the withdrawal timeline, so they did not exactly take the blueprint they were given in that regard.

– Congress One source

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1 year ago

AI companies using copyrighted works to train their models to create similar works is exactly the type of behavior the copyright office and courts should explicitly ban. Original art is meant to be protected by law, not works created by machines that used the original art to create new work.

– Karl Fowlkes

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1 year ago

Markets are reacting to work we’ve done, so I shouldn’t be monitoring you, i should monitor what we’re doing, and that’s exactly what I do.

– Speaker McCarthy

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1 year ago

Beverly said she lived by putting energy and focus on five Fs : Faith, Family, Friends, Fun, Fitness, these were exactly my priorities as well.

– Bo Knapp Both Bo

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1 year ago

You’re the sum of your choices. You’re exactly who, what and where you choose to be in life.

– Paul Templer

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1 year ago

We live in a day and age where people make it impossible for women, men, anyone to embrace themselves exactly how they are.

– The Grammy-winner

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1 year ago

In my own mind, there’s no doubt that he’s being wrongfully detained by Russia, which is exactly what I said to Foreign Minister Lavrov when I spoke to him over the weekend, but I want to make sure that as always, because there is a formal process, that we go through it and we will, and I expect that to be to be completed soon.

– Antony Blinken

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1 year ago

We’re still sort of learning exactly how all this works, you just don’t fully know how information you put in, if it is used to retrain these models, how it manifests as outputs at some point, or if it does.

– Steve Mills

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1 year ago

You can give your kids a meal that is not full of things you do n’t want to feed them – for a few pounds you can feed three strapping lads, from a kitchen perspective, it is very simple because when it leaves our factory it is already cooked. So when you or a restaurant owner gets it into the kitchen all you have to do is heat it up to be piping hot. It could n’t be more basic : a student with no cooking skills or a Michelin-starred chef do exactly the same thing to put it out on the plate.

– Simon Howie Butchers

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1 year ago

I believe this Witch-Hunt will backfire massively on Joe Biden, the American people realize exactly what the Radical Left Democrats are doing here. Everyone can see it. So our Movement, and our Party – united and strong – will first defeat Alvin Bragg, and then we will defeat Joe Biden, and we are going to throw every last one of these Crooked Democrats out of office so we can MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

– Donald Trump

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1 year ago

We know exactly what’s going to happen, we saw an enormous amount of effort on the California halibut inside of San Francisco Bay. And then there was four or five years following where the fishery was really poor.

– Andy Guiliano

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1 year ago

The only victims this shooter was able to get to were victims that were stuck in some sort of open area or hallway, several were able to evacuate safely. The ones that couldn’t do that safely did exactly what they were taught and trained to do.

– Brink Fidler

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1 year ago

...first ascertain exactly the position of the various capitalists, then control them, influence them by restricting or enlarging, facilitating or hindering their credits, and finally they can entirely determine their fate.

– Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

added by Normando
1 year ago

For example, Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, the guy has been saying for a year – for a long time that he wants to sunset Social Security and Medicare every five years, what that means is: Every five years it comes up, if you don’t vote for it back in existence again with the same – exactly like it was, it goes away. Or you can reduce it. You can do whatever you want. But every five years, it has to be voted on. Now he says, ‘Never mind’. Don’t need to do that.

– Joe Biden

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1 year ago

Even if there was dust in the ice matrix, you’re not sublimating the ice, you’re just rearranging the ice and then letting (hydrogen) get released. So, the dust isn’t even going to come out, what’s beautiful about Jenny’s idea is that it’s exactly what should happen to interstellar comets. We had all these stupid ideas, like hydrogen icebergs and other crazy things, and it’s just the most generic explanation.

– Darryl Seligman

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1 year ago

Under California law, we cannot drive the school system into a bankruptcy position. We cannot drive the school system into a red position. And if we were to acquiesce to all the demands, that is exactly where we would be, that is not legally allowable.

– Superintendent Alberto Carvalho

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1 year ago

I feel like he was made for this, he is exactly where he needs to be.

– Jennifer Griffith

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1 year ago

Being on the autism spectrum and especially on the low end does not excuse a person’s conduct. Autism is not a defense, william Isaacs knew exactly what he was doing, and he knew it was wrong.

– Troy Edwards

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1 year ago

I think more than any other person that I’ve ever known, my mother exemplified what is best about this country, my mother was a registered nurse and … she treated African Americans exactly the same as she did White people and she was unique, perhaps among the 30,000 people that lived in our county, in doing that. I was filled with admiration for my mother.

– White Christian

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1 year ago

Dang that’s crazy in exactly 136 school days we will be graduated.

– The Blonde Jon

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1 year ago

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