How to Use specificity in a Sentence

specificity

noun

• I was impressed by the specificity of her instructions.
• The lack of specificity seemed to push Disney Stock ending down about 3% for the day.
  — Richard Torrenzano, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
• Chapek’s memo builds off of that with more specificity.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Nov. 2022
• The same can be said of her pictures, where specificity is a bit of a red herring.
  — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2024
• In the spirit of the game, Goldstein and Daley revel in the specificities of their world.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
• One of the many strange things pain does is thrust you back into your own specificity over and over again.
  — Liz Appel, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
• And just like with all good writing, specificity helps.
  — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2023
• And the wire — the analogy of the wire is really like the molecular specificity.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• But there’s also such specificity to this world and each one of these characters.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
• The reenactments are strikingly lit and acted, bringing the scene to life and enhancing the specificity of the time and place.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2023
• And not only are the outfits more connected to the music, there's a degree of specificity that serves as a kind of badge of honor.
  — Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023
• Clement suggested that greater specificity would happen if the judges allowed the case to get to a discovery phase.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2022
• Is that specificity why Players didn't make much noise this summer?
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2022
• Mazin sees both the specificity and the universality in Bill and Frank’s story.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 29 Jan. 2023
• Tests with low specificity are more likely to show a false positive.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 22 Jan. 2024
• Often, CRMs default to fields that do not have enough specificity to drive insight.
  — Kelly Grover, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• But there was a technical issue noted in the report: The bill’s specificity would leave out red chiles and chiles roasted in the summer.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 19 Feb. 2023
• The lack of specificity in the State Constitution is something that some states are rushing to address.
  — New York Times, 27 June 2022
• Yet while the latter’s thoughts on romance have the soothing sugar rush of a dream, Clarkson’s are more grounded in specificity.
  — Vulture, 27 June 2023
• The specificity of the first-person narration in this book creates a vivid sense of connection.
  — Tegan Tigani, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Nov. 2022
• The specificity of these conversations, even the subject matter itself, is a slice-of-life that video games just don’t play with.
  — WIRED, 1 Nov. 2023
• The building’s owner did not respond to an email asking for more specificity.
  — Todd Wallack, ProPublica, 19 Sep. 2023
• As much specificity as possible is critical as there can be a lot of grey area.
  — Joyce E. A. Russell, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• But in Anantharaman’s work, the joy of being young and alive is frozen in time through anatomical specificity and an artful eye.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 8 Aug. 2023
• Rick, Sue Ann and Albert have brought specificity, humor, heart, pain, silliness and honesty to every frame of this show.
  — Jason Katims, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2022
• Harms were discussed less often, but with terrible specificity that stood out next to the vagueness.
  — Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
• Despite the specificity of the setting and the performances, there is a universality to the story.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2023
• But for us, the commitment and transparency, as well as the specificity around cohorts, has made a difference.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
• Become a Subscriber The truth is that the album is underrated in its specificity.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2023
• Such specificity keeps the characters from getting swallowed up by the symbolic weight of their roles.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024