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Recent Examples of specialness
Its accessibility only amplifies its specialness.
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Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
The real loss is the specialness.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
Stanton’s disdain for immigrants led her into emergent realms of pseudoscience that would transform into eugenics; her rhetoric about women strayed from the principle of gender equality into essentialist ideas about women’s feminine specialness.
—Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
At least the quality of cabin materials—the complex leather stitching, the suppleness of the hide, the tasteful integration of carbon-fiber trim—lends the cabin a feeling of specialness that mitigates some of the tech frustrations.
—Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2026
And adults reinforced the child's sense of specialness by holding him to a higher standard.
—Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
Watson made his biggest scientific discovery as a young man, only 25 years old, and his sense of his own abilities, his own specialness, seemed never to mature beyond a young man’s bravado.
—Kathryn Paige Harden, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
The hair that would otherwise sprout from his postpubescent body has been replaced by the residues of fire—that Promethean symbol of dawning human specialness.
—Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
The compliments resulted in a temporary spike in feelings of uniqueness and specialness, demonstrating how praise can inflate ego in the short term – even outside clinical narcissism.
—New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2025
Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
The real loss is the specialness.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
Stanton’s disdain for immigrants led her into emergent realms of pseudoscience that would transform into eugenics; her rhetoric about women strayed from the principle of gender equality into essentialist ideas about women’s feminine specialness.
—Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
At least the quality of cabin materials—the complex leather stitching, the suppleness of the hide, the tasteful integration of carbon-fiber trim—lends the cabin a feeling of specialness that mitigates some of the tech frustrations.
—Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2026
And adults reinforced the child's sense of specialness by holding him to a higher standard.
—Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
Watson made his biggest scientific discovery as a young man, only 25 years old, and his sense of his own abilities, his own specialness, seemed never to mature beyond a young man’s bravado.
—Kathryn Paige Harden, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
The hair that would otherwise sprout from his postpubescent body has been replaced by the residues of fire—that Promethean symbol of dawning human specialness.
—Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
The compliments resulted in a temporary spike in feelings of uniqueness and specialness, demonstrating how praise can inflate ego in the short term – even outside clinical narcissism.
—New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for specialness
Noun
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And players that crossed paths with the Queens native reminisced about her greatness throughout the years.—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
6 May 2026
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Sometimes greatness is measured in former players who still call decades later.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 May 2026
Noun
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The mania for ancient Greece and Rome is in ample display among the current descendants of the Nazis, the alt-right more than happy to cosplay their fantasy of classical masculinity and racial exceptionality.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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And just as Shakespeare relentlessly intensified Lear’s individuality, so did Jobs make each gadget more itself, eschewing generic compromise to magnify exceptionality.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Co-directors Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch keep things in a constant state of fabulousness, presenting entertaining design diversions, creating a bit of drama from the outside world, and introducing a few glittering special effects, too.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The staff also earned an excellence in video award.—
Los Angeles Times Staff,
Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2026
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Under Bobby Cox, the Braves would fashion the longest run of regular-season excellence in the history of baseball, winning 14 consecutive division championships with all manner of players and teams but with one formidable constant — the manager.—
Mark Bradley for the AJC,
AJC.com,
9 May 2026
Noun
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Protecting the sense of superiority of white passengers was the top priority.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 May 2026
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If the industry collapses, no individual company’s superiority matters.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 May 2026
Noun
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His relaxed point of view is a far cry from the grandness or the grittiness that marked the work of Western painters past like Frederic Remington or Albert Bierstadt.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
30 Mar. 2026
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But the grandness of these dreams butts up against the precarity that their dreamers are facing.—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2026
Noun
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What is the importance of drawing this distinction, though?—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
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Saka’s importance to this Arsenal side cannot be overstated.—
Abdul Rehman,
New York Times,
7 May 2026
Noun
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And when setbacks inevitably happen, Hood said resilience matters more than perfection.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
11 May 2026
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The limited menu is curated to perfection and has staple dishes with local meats, such as the Carolina Mountain Trout and the Open Range Meatloaf.—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
10 May 2026
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“Specialness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/specialness. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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