Exact
Exact verb - To ask for (something) earnestly or with authority.
Knock
Knock verb - To come into usually forceful contact with something.
Common collocations
| target | exact target | knock target |
Both words in one sentence
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Instead of jumping back to inject themselves or trying to knock away the other's syringe, they inject each other, knowing that the the other will do the exact same thing.
Source: Fearful Symmetry - If the last "man" hears a knock and it's a woman, see Exact Words and/or No Man of Woman Born.
Source: The Last Man Heard A Knock -
If something would knock out all players at the exact same time, then nobody "wins".
Source: Shaped Like Itself
Cite this Source
Knock and Exact. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/exact/knock
Exact & Knock. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/exact/knock>.
Knock or Exact. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/exact/knock.
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