to be precise
idiom
—used to indicate that a statement is accurate and specific
one night in early summer—June 22, to be precise
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That's almost 1% of the speed of light (0.87% to be precise).
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Once one of the kingdom’s most successful and compelling automotive exports, MG is best known to Americans today, if at all, as the maker of several popular sports-car models sold in this country a long time ago—between 1947 and 1980, to be precise.
—Jamie Kitman, airmail.news, 14 Dec. 2024
Everybody that night was doing a lot of drugs and nobody’s memory is going to be precise.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025
If that’s true, Season 2 ended on April 4, 2024, and season 3 began on February 6, 2025, which is actually less than a year, nine months, to be precise.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Once one of the kingdom’s most successful and compelling automotive exports, MG is best known to Americans today, if at all, as the maker of several popular sports-car models sold in this country a long time ago—between 1947 and 1980, to be precise.
—Jamie Kitman, airmail.news, 14 Dec. 2024
Everybody that night was doing a lot of drugs and nobody’s memory is going to be precise.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025
If that’s true, Season 2 ended on April 4, 2024, and season 3 began on February 6, 2025, which is actually less than a year, nine months, to be precise.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
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“To be precise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20be%20precise. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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