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in the strict sense also in the strictest sense

according to the most limited and exact meaning of a word or idea â€œConservativeâ€ in the strict sense of the word is not a label that fits her. The novel is not tragic in the strictest sense, but it is certainly full of sadness.

Usage notes: usually used to say that someone or something does not have the characteristics of this limited meaning

See also: sense

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But he is not a scrapper in the strictest sense, even though he is capable of chiselling out the ugly runs in adversity. Flintoff's return leaves England still looking at sixes and sevens by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk Although not in the strictest sense a business, offering services as a freelancer can be particularly profitable. Work at Home Business Ideas by Paul Serellis / Business community Cromwell is a sociologist by training, but Unveiled Voices, Unvarnished Memories: The Cromwell Family in Slavery and Segregation, 1692-1972 is not a scholarly treatise in the strictest sense. Unveiled Voices, Unvarnished Memories: The Cromwell Family in Slavery ... by Wallach, Jennifer Jensen / Journal of Southern History More results

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But he is not a scrapper in the strictest sense, even though he is capable of chiselling out the ugly runs in adversity.

Flintoff's return leaves England still looking at sixes and sevens by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

Although not in the strictest sense a business, offering services as a freelancer can be particularly profitable.

Work at Home Business Ideas by Paul Serellis / Business community

Cromwell is a sociologist by training, but Unveiled Voices, Unvarnished Memories: The Cromwell Family in Slavery and Segregation, 1692-1972 is not a scholarly treatise in the strictest sense.

Unveiled Voices, Unvarnished Memories: The Cromwell Family in Slavery ... by Wallach, Jennifer Jensen / Journal of Southern History

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