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specifically

[spi-sif-ik-lee] / spɪˈsɪf ɪk li /


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We are building AI systems specifically designed to give us the answer before we feel the discomfort of not having it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

The effort added extra school staff including a psychiatric social worker and counselors to specifically to help Black students, who made up about 7% of the district’s students.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

These features are typical of a supernova, specifically a "stripped-envelope core-collapse" supernova, not a kilonova.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026

Because of that, the high cost of fuel equals higher food prices, making the agriculture industry highly sensitive to price shocks from fuel, specifically diesel.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

This would not have puzzled Duhem, who specifically formulated his thesis to address modern physics; he acknowledged that it did not apply, for example, to nineteenth-century biology.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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