specifying

Example Sentences

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But rather than regulating dinner guests, Congress was specifying when mandatory duties attach to government officials stationed at ports of entry.

From Slate • Jun. 26, 2026

By specifying buying and selling prices, limit orders give investors a bit more control over trades.

From Barron's • Jun. 16, 2026

Initial findings show Tongzhou Group, the company operating the privately owned coal mine, had committed "serious illegal violations", authorities said, without specifying what they discovered.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

Some container shipping is going through the Panama Canal, which has reported increases in daily transits since the war, without specifying which types of ships.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

If genes were discrete particles specifying one trait, then how could this property be reconciled with the occurrence of human characteristics, say, height or skin color, in continuous curves?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee