specify

The Brazilian leader did not specify a target for the comments.

From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026

So if you’re in that range, it would be helpful to specify to your audience whether you are employed, because it would greatly change the dynamics.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

Smith did not specify the type of cancer but said that the illness had spread and that Whimsy needed chemotherapy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

The report included an FBI comment noting that address information “was not a valid field when creating a TikTok account” and that the source didn’t specify how China could have acquired U.S. address data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

As for food production’s more sinister by-product of infectious diseases, we cannot specify where within the Old World most major diseases of Old World origin arose.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The move to create the $250 note could also break with a different federal law that specifies the denominations that can be produced.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

TAA specifies lysine, while TAG specifies glutamic acid.

From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026

The regulation specifies that “if any licensee shall permit any . . . candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station,” the station owner “shall afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026

The trust specifies that he may — or may not — sell, mortgage or alter the designated beneficiaries and any proceeds from its sale must pass to the named beneficiaries.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 10, 2026

The information from the spacecraft specifies how bright or dark each dot is to be.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Musk has not specified how much he intends to spend.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

The utility hasn’t specified how it plans to fund such a ramp up of projects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Another factor that can increase the cost of graduation is buying an official photograph, with providers specified by your university, adds Allingham.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

The for-profit arm is now a Delaware public-benefit corporation, a for-profit company whose directors can balance profit, stakeholder interests, and a specified public mission—as they see fit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Genes specified proteins that switched on genes that specified proteins that switched on genes—and so forth, all the way to the very first embryological cell.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Separately, a landslide in China's northwestern Gansu province killed five people on Tuesday, with rescuers working to locate 12 others still missing, Xinhua said, without specifying what caused it.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

The ambiguity in the lyrics allied to the familiar, easy melody, Harrison believes, allows fans to "express an outpouring of love without necessarily specifying what it's towards".

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

But rather than regulating dinner guests, Congress was specifying when mandatory duties attach to government officials stationed at ports of entry.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026

By specifying buying and selling prices, limit orders give investors a bit more control over trades.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

If genes were discrete particles specifying one trait, then how could this property be reconciled with the occurrence of human characteristics, say, height or skin color, in continuous curves?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee