as in carefully
without any relaxation of standards or precision
strictly speaking, Columbus did not discover America—the people living there had long known about it the rules must be strictly obeyed
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precisely
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One of those ideas is the magnetar, but that doesn’t fit precisely, due to ASKAP J1832’s bright and variable radio emissions.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
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That feels like precisely the sort of bet that a Canucks team in need of adding elite skill above all else this summer should consider strongly.—
Harman Dayal,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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“Strictly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strictly. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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