precisely

/ prɪˈsaɪslɪ /

adverb

1. in a precise manner

sentence substitute

1. exactly: used to confirm a statement by someone else

Example Sentences

There are also administrative hurdles in determining precisely who’s eligible.

From Fortune

Its simplicity means it can be used to precisely test the theory of quantum electrodynamics, which explains how electrically charged particles interact.

From Science News

Satellite monitoring that began in the early 1990s has let scientists precisely measure how fast ice moves across Antarctica.

From Science News

But, as we shall see, when we examine how genetic material actually flows down through generations, it’s clear that even this process is far too tricky to be captured precisely in an individual case.

From Quanta Magazine

If the calculations enable researchers to precisely predict what this graviton noise looks like, he thinks their odds of discovery are better — although still rather unlikely.

From Quanta Magazine

But perhaps it is precisely for this reason that the rediscovery of Dietrich von Hildebrand could not come at a better time.

From The Daily Beast

The Sony Hack is precisely the sort of thing that would be made into a Hollywood movie—if it weren't happening to Hollywood.

From The Daily Beast

Yet that is precisely what President Obama and more specifically the immigration lobby is asking Americans to do.

From The Daily Beast

His deficiencies and self-doubts, amid his epochal mission of liberation, are precisely what make him interesting.

From The Daily Beast

Indeed, a common racial slur in Dutch is, precisely, roetmop, which means soot mop.

From The Daily Beast

Precisely here is found the key to the operation of the economic society in which we live.

From Project Gutenberg

Mademoiselle caught it, and Garnache caught it too, although he failed to interpret it as precisely as he would have liked.

From Project Gutenberg

He bought it instantly, and then seized upon precisely such a "long white thing" of ermine as he had seen in his mind's eye.

From Project Gutenberg

The body of a young woman was found in the compound outside my bungalow, done to death in precisely the same way.

From Project Gutenberg

Many years afterwards precisely similar bits for boring wood were patented as new things, and are still used.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• absolutely
• accurately
• as well
• correctly
• literally
• specifically
• squarely
• strictly