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"Specific" in a Sentence (24 examples)
I want specific information.
We have specific proof of your innocence.
Let's study a specific example.
The goal of the center should be to train young people from other countries within a specific time period.
In American football the defense has a specific job.
The municipal council should concentrate more on specific issues.
A soft answer is a specific cure of anger.
An effective writer is one who knows what sort of words should be employed in any specific context.
He has no specific aim.
Please give him detailed and specific directions.
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While some participants, like Gabi and Jasmine, had access to a gym but still felt uncertain about using specific types of equipment, others who trained at home faced even greater challenges due to the absence of both a coach and proper equipment.
Holonyms: generic, familial
Meronyms: infrasubspecific, infraspecific, subspecific
Science and literature, then, are the two achievements of Homo sapiens that most convincingly justify the specific name.
A psychologist told WJLA TV that, for the most part, this isn’t a Cocomelon-specific issue. The main issue is too much screen time and children's shows with fast-paced sequences.
a highly specific test specific and nonspecific symptoms
Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
Any improvement in secondary sciatica is probably due to the analgesic action of the sodium salicylate, but in primary sciatica, in all likelihood “rheumatic,” the effect of the sodium salicylate appears to be specific rather than symptomatic.
The study of specific medicines is too much disregarded now. No doubt, the hunting after specifics is a mark of ignorance and weakness in medicine, yet the neglect of them is proof also of immaturity; for, in fact, all medicines will be found specific in the perfection of science.
Change of scene, and a new lover, are infallible specifics, always supposing there is no character for constancy to be supported: if I witness the violent sorrow of to-day, I impose upon to-morrow the necessity of being sorry also.
If Burd Ellen had gone “widishins" round the church, she would, I think, have used the best homoeopathic specific against the Elf-King's power; for "to go widishins" was the chief element in elfin practices, and if mortals wished to resist or unspell elf-craft, they, too, had "to go widershins," or they had to repeat the Paternoster backwards, which came to the same thing, or do something else contrariwise.
A compound of spurge, cardamom, cinnamon of Mecca, pellitory, ginger, nettle seed is an Arab specific for sexual weakness.
I had no unreasonable fear of bats, […] yet I knew them too for carriers of the dread “Hydrophobia,” for which there was no specific.
With the exception of names of pan-Canadian significance and some alternate forms approved by provincial authorities, the specific is not translated.
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