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Recent Examples of specialized
While some roles on the list require specialized training or professional certifications, others are more accessible to those who may not have industry experience yet.
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Sarah Jackson, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
Those specialized cells—regulatory T cells—are now well established as playing a key role in peripheral immune tolerance.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 6 Oct. 2025
The first container ships started going through the Arctic more than a decade ago, but usually on specialized, ad hoc voyages, Humpert told CNN.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
The company has made big deals in recent weeks with Oracle and SoftBank, its partners on a data center venture called Stargate, and with chipmaker Nvidia, which makes the specialized AI chips those data centers need.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
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Sarah Jackson, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
Those specialized cells—regulatory T cells—are now well established as playing a key role in peripheral immune tolerance.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 6 Oct. 2025
The first container ships started going through the Arctic more than a decade ago, but usually on specialized, ad hoc voyages, Humpert told CNN.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
The company has made big deals in recent weeks with Oracle and SoftBank, its partners on a data center venture called Stargate, and with chipmaker Nvidia, which makes the specialized AI chips those data centers need.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for specialized
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Make no mistake, though, this footballing mecca, where the turnstiles closed for the final time 25 years ago this week, was a truly special place.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Receiving that nomination, specifically for that album, was just so special.—
Carly Thomas,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Oct. 2025
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Şengün played a large chunk of his limited time on the floor Monday night with Adams or Capela also in the lineup.—
William Guillory,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Following their split, the parents of two were seen together on numerous occasions, including the 2019 Emmys where Taylor was on deck to support Ben, who was nominated for outstanding directing for a limited series, movie or dramatic special for Escape At Dannemora.—
Alexandra Schonfeld,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
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The belief is that working on his mental approach with new goalie coach Peter Aubry, combined with a couple of technical adjustments, will help Skinner become more consistent and at his best — which is very good — more often.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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My ground floor criteria require accelerating revenue and earnings (both sequentially and year-over-year), reasonable valuation relative to the market, and solid technical action.—
Jeffrey Hirsch,
CNBC,
8 Oct. 2025
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Hundreds more were forced to sleep on cots in terminals overnight, as authorities scrambled to respond to unconfirmed but credible reports of drones in restricted airspace.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Things had finally intensified to where McTavish was on the phone with Morris five or six times a day after a lengthy and meaningful divide over term and worth resulting in the center withholding his services for the first 10 days of training camp as a restricted free agent without a contract.—
Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The team plans to expand the research to evaluate inhaler emissions in specific patient groups, such as Medicaid recipients, and to compare clinical outcomes of low- and high-emission inhalers in the same therapeutic class.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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The guidelines contain specific terminology and targets for calories and nutrients that guide federal food aid for mothers and infants, free school lunches and what's served at military bases and in federal prisons.—
Will Stone,
NPR,
8 Oct. 2025
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The basic logic of the drink is, as mentioned, Negroni-like, but more esoteric on a number of fronts.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
4 Oct. 2025
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But this seems to me to be a far more likely possibility than Jesus making legendary journeys to India, Egypt, or even Britain, so popular in esoteric lore.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Specialized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/specialized. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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