Exact
Exact verb - To establish or apply as a charge or penalty.
Usage example: vowed to exact a heavy fine from any hockey player engaging in such outrageous behavior on the ice
Release
Release verb - To set free (from a state of being held in check).
Both words in one sentence
- Paramount released it during the crowded Christmas 2012 period — on the same day as another Paramount release, Jack Reacher, to be exact!
Source: Screwed By The Network / Film -
Idiot Ball: Old Lady Hackmore told Ernest, the only one who could release Trantor, the exact steps to do so and expected him not to do it.
Source: Film / Ernest Scared Stupid - However, in the case of the Chronicles PSP release, if you bought the UMD (manual and all), you have an exact walkthrough for the first game in the back pages.
Source: Guide Dang It / Eastern RPG
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