special

Example Sentences

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“I wouldn’t put on a uniform for anything else. This is a special thing.”

From Los Angeles Times

Specifically, his proximity to Robert Ressler, a special agent said to have come up with the term “serial killers,” and who spent much of his career speaking with them.

From Los Angeles Times

They had the right balance of being like, This is all really special and really cool, but also there’s some stuff about this that is really weird.

From The Wall Street Journal

“She likes to pretend there’s nothing special about her, but I know the truth.”

From Literature

Professor Brown and Professor Green, along with a handful of other people on the faculty who had taken a special interest in me, and then the list kind of sputtered to a stop.

From Literature