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Not all software needs to meet your exacting standards.

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Quick take

having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of exacting gathered in one view.

adjective

severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"

adjective

requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for exacting.

adjective

severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"

adjective

requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation"

Example sentences

Not all software needs to meet your exacting standards.

The had exacting specs for some of their pyrotechnics.

I would totally buy "I block MS because MS is evil, has caused me pain in the past, and now I am exacting revenge on them".

" Nobody, in the most exacting, chokingly literal sense.

If anything, their marketing glosses over the exacting level of fit and finish that obviously go into these things.

And those incentives provide discipline that forces analysis from "sounds good enough to me" to more exacting standards.

They reasoned that if someone had adhered to the rider carefully enough to notice the M&Ms clause, they likely would have been exacting for the other specifications as well.

But then again, it's very careful, exacting work that requires quite a bit more analysis and deep understanding of the code that you might think --- and any mistakes could impact users all over the world.

Because of your exacting design requirements, the book is a four-color book printed in Italy, with a 6-8 week reprint lead time, and a cost that is highly dependent on the number of copies printed.

Its whole purpose in life is to enable everything else to run smoothly, so it needs to lay things out in detail that is nothing short of exacting, and if it verges on the anal-retentive that's just a few fewer things for people to worry about later.

CL, and its object system particularly, specifies a lot of extensibility and sometimes hilarious dynamicity with exacting detail.

I don't think he's saying "trust us", he's saying "this is an issue that everyone knows about, thus it's a non-issue".When you submit a drug for approval at the FDA, you need to list in exacting detail exactly how trials were run, including how they were blinded.

> They put severe requirements on the quality of the produceThat's not great for workers, who lose pay if they cannot meet these exacting standards.> They put severe requirements on how the workforce needs to be treatedThe conditions they demand may be better than most workers get in the target country.

Elliot Rodger pounded on the sorority house front door while, inside, the \n young women he yearned to slaughter were preparing for another Friday night, \n authorities said.\n \n The awkward 22-year-old was obsessed with exacting "retribution" for what he \n experienced as a lifetime of social and sexual isolation, and had planned \n meticulously to target as many people as possible, according to a manifesto \n he left behind and a YouTube video since removed.