to be precise
idiom
—used to indicate that a statement is accurate and specific
one night in early summer—June 22, to be precise
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Everybody that night was doing a lot of drugs and nobody’s memory is going to be precise.
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Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025
If that’s true, Season 2 ended on April 4, 2024, and season 3 began on February 6, 2025, which is actually less than a year, nine months, to be precise.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
Besides teaming up with Chappell Roan at the Ludovic de Saint Sernin front row, the rapper also arrived fashionably later — an hour late, to be precise — at the Off-White fall 2025 show.
—Renan Botelho, WWD, 12 Mar. 2025
That’s right, Blair Waldorf and Lily van der Woodsen — well, Leighton Meester and Kelly Rutherford to be precise — linked up at the Elie Saab Womenswear Fall/Winter 2025-2026 fashion show on Saturday, March 8.
—Bailey Richards, People.com, 9 Mar. 2025
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Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025
If that’s true, Season 2 ended on April 4, 2024, and season 3 began on February 6, 2025, which is actually less than a year, nine months, to be precise.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
Besides teaming up with Chappell Roan at the Ludovic de Saint Sernin front row, the rapper also arrived fashionably later — an hour late, to be precise — at the Off-White fall 2025 show.
—Renan Botelho, WWD, 12 Mar. 2025
That’s right, Blair Waldorf and Lily van der Woodsen — well, Leighton Meester and Kelly Rutherford to be precise — linked up at the Elie Saab Womenswear Fall/Winter 2025-2026 fashion show on Saturday, March 8.
—Bailey Richards, People.com, 9 Mar. 2025
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“To be precise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20be%20precise. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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