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Recent Examples of specificity One note of specificity Leach highlights is the reveal of Sofia’s scar on her shoulder in Episode 4. Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 29 Oct. 2024 An odd oversight Compare McDonald’s speed and level of specificity to Chipotle’s handling of its multiple E. coli outbreaks in 2015. Beth Kowitt, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024 The board and succession planning committee had heard from investors that providing more specificity to the succession process was important to them, according to a person familiar with the matter. David Goldman, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024 Business operations in our concept of the ‘future IFS city’ all operate with systems that are finely tuned so that all AI recommendations have an intense level of specificity and accuracy. Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for specificity 
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Noun
  • With these two studies, researchers showed for the first time that debate may make a difference in allowing other AI systems to judge the accuracy of an LLM’s pronouncements.
    Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Of course, all the groundhogs have different predictions, and their rates of accuracy are often below 50 percent.
    Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 7 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Even operations that military analysts laud for their technical sophistication have lacked the precision to avoid widespread harm to civilians.
    Sarah E. Parkinson, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2024
  • If there’s enough to the role, there’s the precision of film acting.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • For her sons, who surely were in the best position to experience the particularity of her being, the last thing the diaries can be seen as is the justification of her abuse and neglect by reason of her life in mid-Fifties America being in some sense typical for women of her type.
    Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Another bitcoin particularity is its four-year halving cycle, which also affects its price dynamics.
    Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024

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“Specificity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/specificity. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.

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