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Recent Examples of specialized
The latest reading was dragged by falling demand in specialized machinery, food preparations and petrochemicals.
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Nur Hikmah Md Ali, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
For dogs with chronic GI problems, veterinarians often recommend specialized diets.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Otherwise, the oil works as a specialized scalp treatment, too, or to provide nourishment during protective styling.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2025
The following month, Carpenter was fitted with Prosthetic Replacement of the Ocular Surface Ecosystem, PROSE, lenses — highly specialized scleral lenses that vault over the eye and are filled with saline to protect and promote healing.
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
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Nur Hikmah Md Ali, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
For dogs with chronic GI problems, veterinarians often recommend specialized diets.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Otherwise, the oil works as a specialized scalp treatment, too, or to provide nourishment during protective styling.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2025
The following month, Carpenter was fitted with Prosthetic Replacement of the Ocular Surface Ecosystem, PROSE, lenses — highly specialized scleral lenses that vault over the eye and are filled with saline to protect and promote healing.
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for specialized
Adjective
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Townshend recalled performing in Chicago at a small club turned roller rink called the Kinetic Playground, 1969 performances with a particularly special opening act.—
Jim Ryan,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Xp Lee won a special election in Minnesota on Tuesday to replace Melissa Hortman, the former speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, who was assassinated in June.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Labor experts believe that the limited enforcement is largely due to limited resources.—
Max Blau,
ProPublica,
16 Sep. 2025
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However, limited number of shows for the film did not help its cause at the box office.—
Sweta Kaushal,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This backdrop could help the technical conditions mature and allow these two patterns to resolve to the upside.—
Frank Cappelleri,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
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An 11-member professional diving team operated under challenging conditions, including strong currents, low visibility, and the technical demands of deep diving.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The lockdown was later lifted, but the university said access to campus would remain restricted to students, faculty, and staff with a valid school ID as local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies continued to investigate the threat.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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YouTube also autoplays non-restricted content when users hover over the video while scrolling.—
Hadas Gold,
CNN Money,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital screened 3,508 patients with stage I, II, or III rectal cancer or stage II or III colon cancer, finding that 1,103 of these people had a specific variant in the PI3K pathway – the genetic marker of interest.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
18 Sep. 2025
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Pillars of the Green Transition, which is set to take place next Wednesday, will bring specific case studies on energy storage, food systems and bioenergy to audiences at the magazine's New York headquarters.—
Katherine Fung,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Unfortunately, tenure, even in the best schools, gets rewarded to professors who write articles filled with complex math or esoteric theories in sociology and psychology.—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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While the syntax of esoteric languages may be hard to understand, the actual programming stack is often wonderfully simple.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Specialized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/specialized. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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