How to Use exactitude in a Sentence

exactitude

noun

• Their exactitude is what made Steely Dan -- a duo that prized polish -- rock & roll, and the press played along.
  — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2017
• The exactitude of the study was astounding, and the timelines for both were at least 18 months long for the phase I was enrolled in.
  — Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
• The menu’s other two mains, skirt steak and wild coho, are grilled over oak with the same exactitude.
  — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 25 Oct. 2018
• Many words could be used to describe the movie’s approach, but exactitude isn’t among them.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2020
• It’s affected by forces and can’t be pinned down with exactitude from minute to minute.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2020
• Such exactitude belies the fact that Lissoni likes to change his mind.
  — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2022
• Fritz lost that battle, but her exactitude made the project better, Adams said.
  — oregonlive, 26 Dec. 2020
• No other movie conveys with such loving exactitude the artistry of a great cuisinier.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2020
• But what about all the other tiny details of an experiment that might be subject to the same exactitude—the time of day, the indoor temperature, the size of the pipettes, and so on?
  — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 5 May 2017
• The rigor and exactitude of academic research in a quantitative field in a place like MIT wasn’t fun.
  — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2023
• Fish for the seasonal omakase menu is prepared with exactitude.
  — Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 July 2017
• Given the exactitude of Sondheim’s music, exact rhyme is essential to snap his word into place, where Joni Mitchell can croon right past it.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• Reis moves with the exactitude of a ballet dancer: Her swift punches are followed by elegant dodges; the grunts and groans adopt a strange musicality.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2022
• And oil paint, above all in the Van Eyck brothers’ altarpiece, birthed a new religious art with such exactitude that believers could look past this world to the world beyond.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• Predicting the first round of the NFL draft more than three months before it's scheduled tends to be an exercise based more in impressionism than exactitude.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2022
• But this type of color is what separates this book from the tedious exactitude of other Roosevelt stories.
  — Leigh Giangreco, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
• Her Camae strides around the motel room (designed with exactitude by Rachel Myers) to tidy up the bed or give King another cigarette.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023
• Roe fills in plenty of history with a fan’s forensic exactitude.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2021
• The rigor and exactitude of academic research wasn’t fun.
  — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2023
• The Gewandhaus players lacked the fiendish exactitude of their Berlin colleagues, but the performance took on human complexity as a result.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• The comb story was part of a larger narrative about the senator’s treatment of her staff, which Klobuchar bravely tried to spin into evidence of her exactitude.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
• The spot is theatrically determined with the exactitude of a surgeon cutting into the human brain.
  — oregonlive, 18 July 2022
• The sentences that follow shimmer with exactitude and madness.
  — Charles Baxter, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• Time, usually a slippery measure of island life, has taken on a chilling exactitude on Guam.
  — Time, 16 Aug. 2017
• Traveling to the capital of a nation fighting a shooting war with a great power, the U.S. had no way to choreograph with exactitude the circumstances of his travel or arrival.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 26 Feb. 2023
• The exactitude with which a problem is defined is the most important factor in finding a good quality solution.
  — Ellevate, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
• Li has become known for distilling the essence of unbearable grief, and doing so with exactitude and an unexpected lightness.
  — Alexandra Kleeman, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• Perhaps the exactitude of practicing was a necessary antidote to the chaos of the historical moment.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2022
• For all the seeming exactitude of the brigade’s roll call record, certain categories are conspicuously missing.
  — Paul Sonne, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
• Will Cobbs and Becca Blackwell, convey with stunning exactitude both the bland unfolding and the extraordinary consequences of the event.
  — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2021