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Aston Martin had a major car upgrade in Hungary two races ago, and a "spec two" Honda engine at the race before Italy in Zandvoort, on either side of the summer break.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“I’ve been buying over the past two, three years anyway and making some investments and putting out some new spec homes, but I think we’re going to start getting a little bit more aggressive now.”

From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026

In Bel-Air, a 105,000-square-foot spec house was marketed for $500 million, but by the time it was finished, it was already falling into disrepair and ended up being auctioned off for $141 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

One theory on the F1 paddock was that Mercedes had discovered a hack with regard to engine compression ratios, a technical spec that ultimately affects engine horsepower.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026

From the good Buick she drive and her nice buckle shoes, I spec Miss Fredericks got a lot more money than Mister and Miss Leefolt do.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

That’s created a critical bottleneck in networking, “supporting higher specs and pricing,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

When the bar for the films themselves is so dreadfully low, I can’t imagine a Marvel fan getting upset about the technical specs of their repetitive, predictable, formulaic, lab-made, half-finished superhero movies.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

"Chaplain Emma Roberts, 54, and the Labour chief, 56, share the same haircut, brows, thick-rimmed specs and smile," the paper reports, fashioning a game of "spot the difference".

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

The company has said it hopes that the R2’s specs will help motivate people who hadn’t considered EVs in the past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

“Great Scott, girl,” he snapped, and jammed the specs back down over his eyes.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

With the refreshed, better specced, and cheaper M2 MacBook Air weeks away, and M1 MacBook Pros on sale, it’s been hard to make a case for why anyone should buy the M2 MacBook Pro.

From The Verge ● Jul. 1, 2022

The Eero Pro 6E is $300 and is specced to cover a 2,000-square-foot living space.

From The Verge ● Apr. 5, 2022

To get a similarly specced Balsam Hill tree at a price close to our pick, you’re limited to the company’s Traditional line, which is made entirely of PVC.

From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2018

It’s entirely likely that Asus, MSi, Alienware, and others will have similarly priced and specced laptops out before long.

From The Verge ● Aug. 28, 2018

Yeah, but the DoD had an RFI for an RFQ that became a RFP, specced by NSA and based upon TD-80-81.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau

I’d option-delete those, if I were speccing a car for myself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

Honor has done a good job at speccing out the hardware of the Magic4 Pro.

From The Verge ● May 12, 2022

These allusions to Ireland are ever-present in the band’s creations, with titles such as “Tir na nÓg” and “Connla’s Well” specked across their discography.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025

It’s a thinner pizza with a distinctively “soft and fluffy” crust that’s been brushed with garlic butter and specked with Grana Padano cheese.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023

Rereading Woolf newly attuned to color, I notice that precise tints and hues daub nearly every paragraph: birds' breasts are "specked canary and rose," morning air is "grey-blue," brooches "sea-green."

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2020

Brick-red and specked with bits of blackened tomato skins and chile de arbol seeds, the salsa arrives still warm from the grill.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2017

Ten days later, Joe Rantz sat again on a train, looking out through the fly- specked window of the coach, watching a fresh new American calamity begin to unfold.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Along the Grand Strand, the stretch of beach communities specking the South Carolina coast, people had to be plucked from flooded cars and buildings surrounded by water and piers had been swept into the ocean.

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022

Last week Luftwaffe planes spotted a huge Allied convoy specking the slate-grey sea between Iceland and Norway's North Cape.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thou wouldst deem that all the ravens of Erin were above him, and that flakes of snow were specking the plain before him.”

From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by T. O. Russell

Balaclava, with its Greek population, its girdle of rocks, and its mild climate, resembles those little towns of the Archipelago that are seen specking the horizon as one sails towards Constantinople.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell

We have twenty-one of them up, specking the sky as clearly as a bacteriologist's slide is specked with microbes.

From Letters from France by C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean