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  • ` You needn't say "exactually,"'the Queen remarked: ` I can believe it without that.

    Through the Looking Glass 1899

  • Personal attacks are exactually that ... personal attacks.

    Ad hominem attacks 2005

  • ‘You needn’t say “exactually,”’ the Queen remarked: ‘I can believe it without that.

    Through the Looking Glass 2003

  • Well, to make a long story short, when we come alongside o 'the beast I just let drive at him with that sword o' mine, and before you could say 'Tom Bowling' I cut him into three pieces, all of exactually the same length, and afterwards we hauled 'em aboard the _Saucy Sally_.

    The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems Henry Ernest Dudeney 1893

  • GM is a perfect example. selling cars at lose is not exactually a smart business plan.

    Autoblog 2009

  • I would trust husband with my best friend but he was quick to jump in with a hard NO and say exactually which friend he wouldn’t trust me with

    Boo-Yah! To my Boo @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy 2006

  • "It's not _exactually_ pretty," she continued, "but it's a _very_ nice cat.

    The Kitchen Cat, and other Tales Amy Walton 1873

  • "It's not _exactually_ pretty," she continued, "but it's a _very_ nice cat.

    The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories Amy Walton 1873

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