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Six example sentences with exacting, each labelled with its topic.
Laminated pastry is exacting work, since a kitchen two degrees too warm turns the butter into a greasy mess.
Cooking
The conductor is exacting about tempo, stopping the orchestra whenever the second violins drift by even a fraction.
Music
Chip fabrication is exacting enough that a single speck of dust can ruin a wafer worth thousands of dollars.
Technology
Fitting the glass roof was exacting work, since each pane had to meet its neighbor within two millimeters.
Architecture
Eye surgery is exacting enough that surgeons rest their wrists on supports and stop the moment their hands feel tired.
Medicine
The coach's exacting footwork drills demand that every pivot land on the same floor tile, ten times in a row.
Basketball
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- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)Authoritative
- Magoosh GRE 1000Recognized
- PrepScholar 357 GRE WordsRecognized
- Manhattan Prep 1000 GRE WordsRecognized
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)Recognized
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
- GregMat 960 GRE WordsRecognized
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