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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 boom needs to be understood on its own terms, in all of its particularity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

The West Coast particularity may be a blessing and a curse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024

“This claim is embarrassing for want of particularity and speculative in the extreme,” the response said.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 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

But the particularities of the sport outside its elegant, digestible, quadrennial national context were always too byzantine to wrap my head around.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 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

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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