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specification(s)

noun

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  1. proposal
  2. idea
  3. conception
  4. technique
  5. purpose
  6. means
Noun
  • The crowd responded enthusiastically to the proposal, and many of the president’s supporters expressed delight at the prospect of receiving $5,000.
    — Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Most past proposals suggested melting Martian soil into bricks using extreme heat.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of proposal
Noun
  • The new experiment tested those competing ideas by deliberately weakening the electron interactions.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026
  • But the head of Germany’s central bank, who is also a member of the European Central Bank Governing Council, said Melenchon’s debt cancelation idea would be forbidden under the currency bloc’s rules and could lead to hyperinflation.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of idea
Noun
  • Beatrice, played by actual academic Anne-Laure Sellier, is a professor at Columbia whose work focuses on how historical conceptions of memory can inform present-day studies of the brain.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The move would have been difficult to imagine under the traditional conception of college sports.
    — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of conception
Noun
  • New techniques can reveal relationships between seemingly unrelated areas and create tools that other mathematicians later build upon.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2026
  • The techniques that made chatbots more capable can also bake in a tendency to hack, cheat and evade human oversight.
    — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of technique
Noun
  • But more is not a purpose, and scale is not automatically success.
    — Michelle De Almeida, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The language of exploitation and cultural extraction gave the battle a purpose that seemed to extend well beyond either rapper.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of purpose
Noun
  • The power is in the hands of the owners of the means of production, and that is not the doctors.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 5 Sep. 2026
  • That’s well above 2025’s monthly average of 10,000 jobs, but below the monthly means for 2023 and 2024.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026
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