How to Use precisely in a Sentence

precisely

adverb
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  • I feel precisely the same way as you do.
  • My app, which helps you to precisely locate the AirTag on a map.
    — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The idea is to talk about flowers the way a gourmand would want to know precisely where their cheese was made and by whom.
    — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 11 July 2023
  • Or more precisely, a bunch of rocks that look like potatoes.
    — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
  • That’s precisely what’s been happening in some areas of North Texas and around the state for at least the past three years.
    — Erin Hayes Burt, Dallas News, 9 May 2023
  • No one knows precisely how events will unfold in the coming days.
    — Javed Ali, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Winds were shifting, but no one knew precisely where, or by how much.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
  • These are precisely the kinds of programs the private sector tends not to do on its own.
    — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • All of this is pitched at precisely the tone between earnest and playful.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
  • But the progress America has made since then, Scott said, is precisely what shows how great the country is.
    — Marianne Levine, Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Dylan Wells, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2023
  • But as officials describe it, the task force and the Top 50 list were formed precisely for the people whom the system had failed time and again.
    — Andy Newman, New York Times, 13 May 2023
  • The flow of billions of dollars into Gaza hinges on who, precisely, will govern the strip.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Second, this is precisely the time of year when the judge’s law clerks, who help craft rulings over the course of a one-year term, move on to make way for new clerks.
    — Byjeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 15 Aug. 2023
  • While this might feel like micromanaging, the goal isn’t to spend precisely that much each time.
    — Mallika Mitra, wsj.com, 14 Nov. 2023
  • And that's precisely why so many people hate this import from Japan.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2023
  • That's precisely what happened with Derek the cat and his family.
    — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 9 June 2023
  • There’s also the now-pressing question — pushed to the fore by the casino feud — about precisely where the massacre occurred.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The whole thing reeks of abuse, which is, of course, precisely director and co-creator Sam Levinson’s point.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 6 June 2023
  • Landing a left tackle and center of the future would do precisely that.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • No problem—there's always a pack of chicken breasts stashed in the freezer precisely for times like these.
    — Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 9 Oct. 2023
  • It's made from a cooling golden alloy and precisely angled to reach the contours of your face.
    — Sarah Maberry, harpersbazaar.com, 6 May 2023
  • By this standard, the Angels are doing precisely the right thing.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • The toys, meanwhile, are rendered by Wachtel's brush as precisely as by the machines that made the originals.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The study didn't reveal precisely why screening is falling so short.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • Have the snares and lures of addiction — a topic Isbell knows well — ever been nailed so precisely?
    — Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2023
  • Kim layers her themes as precisely as a torte chef; her sentences burst with flavor.
    — Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The word was that, at precisely four o’clock, thirty-nine Palestinians would be released from Ofer.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The Palestinians were both out of sight and out of mind, and after the ordeal of the preceding years, that was precisely where many Israelis wanted them.
    — Andrew Exum, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2023
  • More precisely, that more people are driving them and using it.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • And that’s precisely the sort of blowback that happened, with everyone from progressives to Elon Musk to the White House weighing in.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2024

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