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particularity

[per-tik-yuh-lar-i-tee, puh-tik-] / pərˌtɪk jəˈlær ɪ ti, pəˌtɪk- /


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The minister said the problem was particularity acute in certain hospitals and parts of the country.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

This was tender and not sweet because it was anchored in a particularity the audience needed to hear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

“This claim is embarrassing for want of particularity and speculative in the extreme,” the response said.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2023

They can’t atone for the play’s lack of depth, but they bring truthful particularity and a touch of zest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

He downed six hot dogs, then a can of baby carrots, and gratefully accepted a dozen or so Oreos, one after the other, and ate them with great savor and particularity.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Its particularities have been taken as generic “religion.”

From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2025

If his words literally refer to exorcism’s particularities, they subtextually wrestle with faith as a notion, and trickle into broader political life, too.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2025

He needs it more than he lets on, and slowly, O’Sullivan’s script reveals that the particularities of “Romeo and Juliet” strike home for Dan in a way he never anticipated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2024

While this is rather easy in classical computing, it is a great challenge in quantum computing, due to the particularities of the quantum world.

From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024

Grand visions, even ones that prove as prescient as Washington’s, must nevertheless negotiate the damnable particularities that history in the short run tosses up before history in the long run arrives to validate the vision.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis


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