Sentence examples for precise usage from inspiring English sources

In precise usage, "disinterested" means "impartial".

Precise usage calls for "older" when there are only two.

If it's the gerund "returning," then in precise usage "police" should be possessive: "the police's returning".

In precise usage, "latter" and "former" are used only with two items.

Also, in precise usage "fortuitous" does not mean "fortunate" or "lucky"; it means "happening by chance".

As the stylebook notes, in precise usage, "aggravate" means to make worse, not anger or irritate.

In precise, traditional usage, an "eponym" is someone or something that gives its name to something else.

In precise, traditional usage, an eponym is someone who gives a name to something else, and eponymous describes the giver of the name, not the receiver.

Although studies have suggested that PGE2 specifically plays a role in DC motility and cytokine release profile, the precise receptor usage and signaling pathways involved remain unclear.

As a high school English teacher, I often find myself consulting the dictionary to make sure I am precise in my usage of obscure words.

Ambiguity, however, is not at all regarded as a carte blanche for unreflexive pluralism, but calls especially on researchers and educators to be precise in the usage of their terms.