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exacting::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fastidious |
certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements.
Examples of exacting
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The last three were built to the exacting EC3 EarthCheck environmental standard.
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His critiques of her work were exacting, she said, pointing out ways to improve.
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Specific populations, limited to exacting DNA characteristics could be targeted.
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Questions of bias were deflected by the great and exacting detail of the report.
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Their primary goal appears to be exacting more dollars for principal reductions.
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It's an amalgam of beats, chants and raps mixed together with exacting precision.
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Slowly, with exacting politeness, the widow and the Ridgerunner become friends.
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Some recipes are so exacting that the strokes to stir in the sugar are counted.
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And now brutal government-enforced cost controls are exacting a heavy human toll.
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- Fastidious: having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"
- Stern: severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
- Exigent: requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation"
- Extortion, outwresting, and/or exaction is a criminal offense which occurs when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person(s), entity, or institution, through coercion. Refraining from doing harm is sometimes euphemistically called protection. ...
- Making excessive demands; hard to satisfy; Requiring precise accuracy
- (exactingness) The state of being exacting
- Demand: claim as due or just; "The bank demanded payment of the loan"
- Marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact; "an exact mind"; "an exact copy"; "hit the exact center of the target"
- Accurate: (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct; "a precise image"; "a precise measurement"
