have been exacting
- present perfect progressive of exact.
Example Sentences
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For Chatterji, the consequences of her human rights work in India — from Kashmir’s mass graves to Assam’s citizenship tests — have been exacting.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2021
The challenges of the new mission have been exacting, given the vast distances and limited support infrastructure on land.
From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2015
Even Alan Greenspan, the inflation-stalking chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, concedes that the six interest-rate hikes he engineered last year have been exacting a price on the economy.
From Time Magazine Archive
She may have been haughty—she was said to be so— and she may have been exacting in those little matters which make up so large a measure of what is known as polish of manners.
From The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Ketcham, Henry
I have been exacting and receiving all my life, and yet to-night I feel that I have nothing.
From A Young Girl's Wooing by Roe, Edward Payson
