Example Sentences

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The jobs are exacting and often require a deft touch.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2023

However, the criteria for pulling that lever again are exacting, and it’s unclear whether the county would ever get to this point, even if transmission once again rises this fall and winter.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2022

The replicas are exacting in detail, down to the shape, color size, and stamping.

From Washington Times • Jul. 15, 2022

The measures are exacting a mounting economic toll that has fueled complaints from global industry groups and businesses at home.

From Reuters • May 7, 2022

But here, as on those subjects, reason, and that imagination which is one of the forces of reason, by making the mind duly sensible of the magnitude of ideas and alternatives, are exacting.

From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)