Sentence examples for an exact word from inspiring English sources

The phrase "an exact word" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when referring to a specific term or expression that is precise and unambiguous. Example: "Please provide me with an exact word that describes your feelings about the situation."

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Above all, I admire the fact that when an exact word doesn't exist, he calmly invents one.

Romanian also lacks an exact word for "dating", but this has never prevented Romanians from doing so.

Shall we have breakfast?" I did not, of course, know that he was completing "The End of the Affair," the controversial novel based on his own tormenting love affair, nor did I know that the manuscript would end, typically, with an exact word count (63,162) and the time he finished it (August 19th, 7 55 A.M., aboard Elsewhere).

Attackers make subtle changes to the text of the email by using different words at different times and by using misspelled words to avoid detection by filters that require an exact word match.

(Little known fact: all quality novels have an exact word count, so make sure you have one!) If your manuscript is going to be 103,217 words, simply make sure you write exactly 490.28 words each day.

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Sometimes I've had ideas for years before arriving at an exact wording.

It is thought to derive from the Old English ammel, meaning "enamel", and is an exquisitely exact word for a fugitive phenomenon I have several times seen, but never before named.

If you need a more exact word, use (but don't overuse) a thesaurus.

Some words, such as 'orange' will not have an exact rhyming word, therefore words listed will be similar, as a result, you will have to use assonance.

Also, as a public man obliged to write speeches and narrate events, I agree with the illustrious writer on the delight of finding the exact word - a kind of shared and inexhaustible obsession - until the phrase fits our criteria.

Apparently, accomplishing this feat is so rare there isn't even an exact opposite word of to "sin" -- at least in the dictionary I consulted.

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