Exacting has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
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| 1. | Printing firms around the world are generally willing to pay perhaps a 20-percent premium to buy a printing press from Germany, because the German presses are very solidly built and are machined to exacting tolerances. | |
| 2. | Khatia Buniatishvili's powerful hands rose and returned to the piano with exacting force as she played the last chord of a Rachmaninoff concerto. |