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particularity

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


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A notice issued to the lead claimant in the case, Natalie Barstow, was "unduly broad and lacking in particularity", he said.

From BBC Jul. 6, 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

An interesting particularity of the publication is that both of its first authors are master students.

From Science Daily Apr. 11, 2024

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

Experimenters have to insist on the particularity of experience, but they also have to claim that general conclusions can be drawn from specific examples.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

One final and all-important piece of the Jeffersonian vision transcended the troubling particularities of domestic politics altogether.

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




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