How native speakers pronounce “strict”

(Laughter) If we're being strict about it, wherever he went, he was four that year. He was in the Nativity play. Do you remember the story?

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What I mean here is that we've started to define nature in a way that's so purist and so strict that under the definition we're creating for ourselves,

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which was then sold as agricultural fertilizer. Strict timber rationing rules were also introduced, to restore the nation's depleted old-growth forests.

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