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Recent Examples of specificity However, there’s so little specificity to the characters’ careers or surrounding events, even on the precipice of a brand new calendar year, that the question is left floating in limbo. Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 11 June 2025 Yet the phrase’s intentional lack of specificity is a big part of its utility: What the user means is left to the audience’s interpretation. Jay Tcath, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025 The result is a more sprawling yet direct coming-of-age tale animated by the specificity of its characters. Andrew R. Chow, Time, 6 June 2025 Youssef likes to start broad with his humor and then add layers of specificity. Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 2 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for specificity
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Noun
  • Jones has a lower ceiling, but he's shown more accuracy than Richardson so far.
    Steve Bradshaw, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
  • His accuracy was really impressive Wednesday and Thursday.
    Bruce Feldman, New York Times, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Borussia Dortmund’s forwards will need to pick their spot with real precision in the next round.
    The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • The fan can tilt 90 degrees vertically and oscillate horizontally 90 degrees, cooling a wide area with precision.
    Maggie Horton, People.com, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Though the script successfully condenses several eras of Harmon’s life and captures the quirks and particularities of his mother’s and grandmother’s personalities, the performances really give the material its extra emotional heft.
    Maya Phillips, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Longer term, a constitutional amendment seems appropriate — perhaps a supplement to Article II, Section 2, stipulating that a pardon, to be valid, must identify the crime with reasonable particularity.
    Robert A. Levy, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025

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