This cut entails nothing more than shortening every branch growing off the arms to five or so inches (no need to be overly precise).

Such overly precise reporting could be justified in a paper if intended to help the reader duplicate the calculations, rather than as a conclusory statement.

The odds of a meltdown being necessarily uncertain, Wall Street fosters an overly precise, pseudoscientific approach.

That was a male jig, whom Marta had already pegged as stuffy and overly precise.

He began reading in his overly precise manner, the exact opposite of his usual slow speech.

"Were terribly sorry, Monsieur Devereaux," said the darkskinned desk clerk in overly precise English.

Her skilled but overly precise band didn't help; the mix made it sound like a backing track.

This bounding approach permits analysts to make calculations without requiring overly precise assumptions about parameter values, dependence among variables, or even distribution shape.

The couple was at the far end of the store, studying labels on the shelves; the woman was ordering from a list, being overly precise, arrogant.

Party people might be overly precise in their demands, but anyone who'd worked in the Party Secretariat doubtless knew how to work with people.