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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

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

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2023

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

He downed six hot dogs, then a can of baby carrots, and gratefully accepted a dozen or so Oreos, one after the other, and ate them with great savor and particularity.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025

Cruz, who was defending the potential of U.S. collaboration, was strikingly uninformed about the particularities of what would be a massively high-stakes foreign policy investment.

From Slate ● Jun. 21, 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

Worse, the encounter with another set of particularities: the toenails, the ear holes, the nosehairs.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood


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