spec

Back then, spec houses — homes built without a specific buyer in mind — were selling like hotcakes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Aston Martin had a major car upgrade in Hungary two races ago, and a "spec two" Honda engine at the race before Italy in Zandvoort, on either side of the summer break.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“I’ve been buying over the past two, three years anyway and making some investments and putting out some new spec homes, but I think we’re going to start getting a little bit more aggressive now.”

From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026

One theory on the F1 paddock was that Mercedes had discovered a hack with regard to engine compression ratios, a technical spec that ultimately affects engine horsepower.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026

From the good Buick she drive and her nice buckle shoes, I spec Miss Fredericks got a lot more money than Mister and Miss Leefolt do.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

People seem more likely to adopt its smart glasses made in collaboration with Ray-Ban because they’re called Meta, rather than Facebook, specs.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

“Visibility may depend less on advertising to people and more on being clearly described to agents through specs, structured product data and reviews that match the criteria agents ask about,” Kim said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

When the bar for the films themselves is so dreadfully low, I can’t imagine a Marvel fan getting upset about the technical specs of their repetitive, predictable, formulaic, lab-made, half-finished superhero movies.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

The Metro covers the hunt for eclipse glasses, dubbing it Black Wednesday as the demand for specs to watch the solar eclipse has resulted in a "money-making bonanza" for shops.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

"We used his specs," said Simon, smearing a black cheek with his forearm.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

It’s a bit specced down, though, including just an RTX 3050 Ti and 16GB of RAM.

From The Verge ● Sep. 30, 2021

For most people, I don’t think the 8,000Hz refresh rate makes enough of a difference to warrant recommending the Huntsman V2 over an otherwise similarly specced competitor.

From The Verge ● Sep. 24, 2021

That’s $130 more than a similarly specced Go without LTE — plus whatever you’ll spend on data.

From The Verge ● Dec. 19, 2018

To get a similarly specced Balsam Hill tree at a price close to our pick, you’re limited to the company’s Traditional line, which is made entirely of PVC.

From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2018

Yeah, but the DoD had an RFI for an RFQ that became a RFP, specced by NSA and based upon TD-80-81.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau

I’d option-delete those, if I were speccing a car for myself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

Honor has done a good job at speccing out the hardware of the Magic4 Pro.

From The Verge ● May 12, 2022

These allusions to Ireland are ever-present in the band’s creations, with titles such as “Tir na nÓg” and “Connla’s Well” specked across their discography.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025

But the cream-filled doughnuts would be my choice, from the caffeine jolt I got after eating the coffee cream specked with ground beans to a milky, horchata-filled doughnut colored with fall spices.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

He wore a black championship shirt, a white championship hat and goggles still specked with champagne bubbles.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2022

Rereading Woolf newly attuned to color, I notice that precise tints and hues daub nearly every paragraph: birds' breasts are "specked canary and rose," morning air is "grey-blue," brooches "sea-green."

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2020

If Goblin would approach something he feared, Johnny rewarded him with a specked apple, but when he did fall off, he would come home smelling like a cider press.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

Along the Grand Strand, the stretch of beach communities specking the South Carolina coast, people had to be plucked from flooded cars and buildings surrounded by water and piers had been swept into the ocean.

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022

Last week Luftwaffe planes spotted a huge Allied convoy specking the slate-grey sea between Iceland and Norway's North Cape.

From Time Magazine Archive

Balaclava, with its Greek population, its girdle of rocks, and its mild climate, resembles those little towns of the Archipelago that are seen specking the horizon as one sails towards Constantinople.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell

We have twenty-one of them up, specking the sky as clearly as a bacteriologist's slide is specked with microbes.

From Letters from France by C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean

Between Fanar, the last northern point of lookout over the Black Sea, and Galata, down on the Golden Horn, there are about thirty hamlets, villages and cities specking the European shore of the Bosphorus.

From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Lewis Wallace