Sentence examples for does not exactly say from inspiring English sources

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You don't say.

Used to show surprise at something that is being said.

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Her own story happens to be a bit more complicated than that, even if "A Widow's Story" does not exactly say so.

It should be pointed out here - before Wasps ring him to terminate his contract and Brian Ashton tells him to forget about the World Cup (the rugby one, that is) - that Sackey does not exactly say all this.

This is a play that habitually refers to villainous powerful people (governmental and industrial leaders, one supposes) as "they" and suggests -- but does not exactly say -- that "they" intend to use the island for nuclear weapons testing.

Walzer does not exactly say this, but his pro-state bias is evident in his discussion of supreme emergency in Just and Unjust Wars.

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He doesn't exactly say.

The lawyer played one recording of Mr. Hussain asking Mr. Cromitie that if God asked him to "go to the jihad, would you say, 'Allahu akbar'?" "He doesn't exactly say yes, but he doesn't exactly say no," Mr. Briccetti said.

Nigel Praities doesn't exactly say that doctors are behaving as if they had just won EuroMillions and discovered they have only a few hours to splash the cash.

The film tactfully leaves out the real Richard's cold-blooded beheading of 2,700 Muslim civilian hostages in August 1191, which doesn't exactly say "hero".

(The Times doesn't exactly say what the paper knew when, although it quotes Washington editor Dean Baquet as saying that it had the information it needed "sometime before" the Guardian ran its piece).

That's probably not the way that the plan will actually read, so I thought it might be useful if I came and told you what it means, even if it doesn't exactly say that".

And while he doesn't exactly say that the current administration has been careless and incompetent, that theme cries out between the lines of much of what he does say.

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