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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

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

From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024

I try to tease out, from the particularity of their personal experiences, what is eternally human: love, friendship, death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 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

Tanden can reflexively rattle off the particularities of housing protocols I couldn’t begin to decode; she titters with satisfaction upon recounting the intricacies of a long-discarded Australian cap-and-trade proposal.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Khondji concedes to these particularities, yet he doesn’t think in rigid absolutes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 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

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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