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specify

[spes-uh-fahy] / ˈspɛs əˌfaɪ /


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The Legislature’s final bill report also specifies that “various pension statutes are modified to specify that pension income is not exempt from the law.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Police did not specify what ride was involved, but aerial footage from news helicopters showed the Goliath rollercoaster stopped midway, with riders being helped off by workers.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s armed forces had received appropriate orders, although he did not specify what those instructions entailed.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

In certain ciliates, stop codons have evolved to specify amino acids instead of terminating protein production.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

It did not specify how Maggie, or her sisters, may have created spirit manifestations.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

It also specifies that agencies are not required to treat engagement from AI or bots as if they were real humans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The most straightforward way of keeping your moods from affecting your portfolio is to have a detailed financial plan that, well in advance, specifies how you will react, come what may.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

Congress determines which departments and agencies will exist and specifies the authority and duties of their principal officers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

But the release specifies that some other information has been withheld - such as the identities of junior civil servants, or data judged by the government to be "commercially sensitive".

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

Yet scientists today could undoubtedly, if they wished, fulfill for many species that part of the definition of domestication that specifies the control of breeding and food supply.

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

Analysts saw revenue in the quarter climbing to about $51.18 billion, using the company’s specified exchange rate.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

TAA specified lysine, while TAG specified glutamic acid.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Such discharges can be permitted by the Environment Agency under specified circumstances.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Saylor never specified whose generational wealth will be transferred to whom, but the hope he was offering proved too much for most attendees to resist.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

Since things were not going well financially, the labor was paid less than the minimum rates specified by the Trade Union.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

"No personal data related to our rentals is shared with car manufacturers, our owners or other third parties without explicit legal grounds," he added, without specifying whether the onboard videos may have been transferred.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

One of the bills, introduced by Stefani, expands the ability of certified nurse-midwives to provide care for pregnant and postpartum patients by specifying that supervision by a physician is not required when providing certain services.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

The purported hacker has released snippets of the stolen client data—including Römer’s—and threatened to release more unless Revolut pays up, without publicly specifying an amount.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Meanwhile the government in Kinshasa released a statement on X, without specifying numbers of casualties.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 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


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