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not exactly

/ig-zakt-lee/US // ɪgˈzækt li //UK // (ɪɡˈzæktlɪ) //

不完全是,不完全,不尽然,并非完全

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in an exact manner; precisely; accurately.
    • : in every respect; just: He will do exactly what he wants.
    • : quite so; that's right.

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Examples

  • One look at that card, and anyone who has lived through a year of the pandemic knows exactly what Hallmark is trying to say.

  • Pathi says no one outside of Bezos’s inner circle knows who that is exactly.

  • Without knowing exactly who received the messages, the researchers were able to model whether the app was making a difference.

  • When asked by journalists, representatives from helmet companies readily admit that, but it’s not exactly a highlight of marketing materials.

  • This month, we present some classical puzzles that do exactly that.

  • Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.

  • A grand juror in the Ferguson case is suing to be able to explain exactly what went down in the courtroom.

  • Even though clerks in Virginia, Colorado, Utah, and other states have been doing exactly that.

  • In my four years of college, I know exactly one woman who has asked a man out on a date.

  • A peacemaker is also exactly how Police Commissioner William Bratton sees himself.

  • He is simply hearing every tone, knowing exactly what effect he wishes to produce and how to do it.

  • He is what the bill wishes to make for us, a regular root doctor, and will suit the place exactly.

  • I don't exactly see how I could have been, considering I never made a rhyme in my life!

  • A child, under exactly similar circumstances as far as its knowledge goes, cannot very well curse God and die.

  • I understand their point of view, exactly, but I'm not here to play the social game, and I shall talk to whom it pleases me.