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Recent Examples of specificity And so a lot of it is specificity — shot design, very technical work. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 June 2025 The specificity of the language is like fine lacework, a beauty to behold. Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025 And the results were reliable: 90% sensitivity and 97% specificity. Bronwyn Thompson, New Atlas, 9 June 2025 Kagan emphasized that the claim lacked the specificity typically required in aiding and abetting cases. Dan Gooding barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for specificity
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Noun
  • Quantum computing can boost the accuracy of battery material simulations, optimize power grid flows and enhance the design of sustainable energy systems.
    Klaudia Zaika, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • Additionally, defining daytime napping as sleep between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. could have mistakenly included participants’ actual sleep, affecting the accuracy of what would count as a nap, the researchers stated.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 1 July 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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