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especial

[ih-spesh-uhl] / ɪˈspɛʃ əl /


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"I feel especial pain and shame that a terrorist act was carried out by my own hands."

From BBC

China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, has an especial dislike of Lai who has previously described himself as a "practical worker for Taiwan independence".

From Reuters

The Hubble Space Telescope, freed from the tethers of gravity and the blurriness of the atmosphere, can produce images of especial clarity.

From Salon

Shannon’s father’s deathbed sequence is an especial corker.

From New York Times

Parsed into 10 “chapters,” with its swirling rhythms, involuted structure and flights into abstraction, “Time Passes” presents an especial challenge to the pre-post-pandemic brain.

From New York Times