In a sentence
Six example sentences with specifically, each labelled with its topic.
The lease bans pets specifically, while the house rules merely discourage them, so the tenant lost on the narrower clause.
Law
The drug targets one enzyme specifically, leaving the dozen related enzymes in the same family untouched.
Medicine
The recipe calls specifically for smoked paprika, and sweet paprika will give you a pleasant dish that is not this one.
Cooking
The scouting report singled out one weakness specifically, that he drifts left on every pull-up jumper.
Basketball
The patch fixes one bug specifically, the login timeout, and leaves the other forty open tickets for next month.
Technology
The fund invests specifically in water utilities, not the broad energy sector its name suggests.
Finance
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