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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

The balance of $150,000,000 does not necessarily indicate that any particular section of middle-men have been exacting excessive profits.

From A Terminal Market System New York's Most Urgent Need; Some Observations, Comments, and Comparisons of European Markets by Black, Madeleine

They must have been exacting tax collectors, because we read also that, in 859, the Slavs rose and expelled their visitors.

From The Story of Russia by Bergen, R. Van