selectivity
Example Sentences
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If Syracuse is willing to concede some prestige and selectivity, “they have more degrees of freedom, but they also lose that social position that they spent a long time trying to achieve.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Raising the temperature speeds up the reaction, but it also encourages a competing process known as the reverse water-gas shift reaction, which produces unwanted byproducts and lowers methanol selectivity.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026
According to the research team, S3E demonstrated impressive selectivity during testing.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026
They did find one notable exception: For black, Hispanic and first-generation students from low-income families, selectivity did predict higher earnings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
If this sort of selectivity had been possible for Billy, he might have chosen as his happiest moment his sundrenched snooze in the back of the wagon.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
