as in accuracy
careful thoroughness of detail
the specificity of your description of your medical condition was a bit more than I needed
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Recent Examples of specificity
The film draws power from the subtle specificity; Børsum’s voice, low and knowing, comes suffused with an ineffable meaning.
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Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026
Alternative financing routes remain, including legislative authorization or a public bond measure, but those options would likely require greater specificity about the project’s scope and impacts.
—Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 2 Jan. 2026
Literature depends on specificity, but not the indiscriminate, relentless specificity of real life.
—Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Think Showtime’s The Agency without the geopolitical specificity or punchy dialogue.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Dec. 2025
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Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026
Alternative financing routes remain, including legislative authorization or a public bond measure, but those options would likely require greater specificity about the project’s scope and impacts.
—Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 2 Jan. 2026
Literature depends on specificity, but not the indiscriminate, relentless specificity of real life.
—Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Think Showtime’s The Agency without the geopolitical specificity or punchy dialogue.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for specificity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for specificity
Noun
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But for other, clinical use cases, the accuracy is too low for LLMs to be deployed safely — let alone AI agents that operate autonomously without human oversight.—
Amy Feldman,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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Hope the Mission's maintenance supervisor Kelsin Orellana knows firsthand the importance of accuracy in Los Angeles' annual homeless count.—
Jasmine Viel,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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Data centres and automation are raising requirements for power, connectivity, and operational precision.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Players use it for precision drills and reaction training.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Jan. 2026
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Good care requires a level of presence and attentiveness that just can’t be scaled.—
Jen Zamzow,
The Conversation,
17 Dec. 2025
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The company is aiming squarely at a traveler who wants the convenience of commercial routes but the comfort and attentiveness that usually come with chartering a jet.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
4 Dec. 2025
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All have elements specific to Rio de la Plata region and South America, from the ways of telling the stories and the emotional bonds with the characters, as well as locations and the particularities of regional talent.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
3 Dec. 2025
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Her book was granular on the subject of embalming, devoting much of her manuscript to the gory particularities of the procedure.—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2025
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While Western societies tend to favor clear, direct communication, Haque said non-Western cultures often view such explicitness as disrespectful, meaning people with roots in those cultures learn to strike a delicate balance between appeasing a difficult elder and staying true to oneself.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
25 Nov. 2025
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In a season dominated by a search for sensuality without explicitness, fringe delivered a fresh solution.—
Alex Badia,
Footwear News,
19 Nov. 2025
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Just as essential a consideration as carefulness for committee members, though, is speed.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Specificity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/specificity. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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