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Six example sentences with precisely, each labelled with its topic.
Weigh the flour precisely, because twenty extra grams turns a tender crumb into something closer to a brick.
Cooking
The satellite clock must tick precisely, since a millionth of a second of drift moves your map position thirty feet.
Technology
The play works only if the screen arrives precisely as the guard crosses the elbow, not a heartbeat later.
Basketball
The two pianists must strike the chord precisely together, since a gap of a few milliseconds reads as a mistake.
Music
The dose is measured precisely by weight, because a child's tablet is a fraction of an adult's and the margin is small.
Medicine
The stones were cut so precisely that a knife blade cannot slip between them five centuries after the wall went up.
Architecture
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