specific
Example Sentences
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Even today, there is still no vaccine or specific antiviral therapy available.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
It added: "We have campaigned for some time for more to be done to protect shop workers from offenders, including retail crime being made into a specific stand alone offence."
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
Prader-Willi syndrome stems from the loss of function of specific genes on the paternal copy of chromosome 15.
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
It disables specific growth enzymes in grass weeds, while the same enzymes in crops like soybeans remain unaffected.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Although current technology allows STSs to predetermine a timeprint, spatial scientists have not yet developed technology to select specific geographic landing destinations outside of the STM coordinates.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.