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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

The particularity of quantum physics is that if two particles are close enough to each other to interact, they can stay connected even when separated.

From Science Daily Oct. 12, 2023

Keegan takes care to etch out for us this world’s particularity, to let us see,feel and hear it, to enlist us in helping bring it to life.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 1, 2022

We claimed, among other things, that the indictment was vague and lacked particularity.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2025

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

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

Grand visions, even ones that prove as prescient as Washington’s, must nevertheless negotiate the damnable particularities that history in the short run tosses up before history in the long run arrives to validate the vision.

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




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