to be precise


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Adv.1.to be precise - in actual fact; "properly speaking, they are not husband and wife"
properly speaking, strictly speaking
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I should have found for myself a form of activity in keeping with it, to be precise, drinking to the health of everything "sublime and beautiful." I should have snatched at every opportunity to drop a tear into my glass and then to drain it to all that is "sublime and beautiful." I should then have turned everything into the sublime and the beautiful; in the nastiest, unquestionable trash, I should have sought out the sublime and the beautiful.
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This is, of course, the year that HM - and we - will celebrate the golden anniversary of her Coronation - June 2, to be precise.
James Whitaker Column: Coronation prizes for 10 of you
the dachshund Gretel to be precise. One of the sorriest shapes man ever thought up when it comes to stomping the muddy fields
The river itself
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