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in particular
Idioms and Phrases
Especially; also, separately, individually, in detail. For example, The chancellor talked about the curriculum, the core courses in particular , or The orchestra was outstanding, the strings in particular . [c. 1500]Example Sentences
It has been reserved for our own day to evolve the comedy of nothing-in-particular.
Allan Dorris, if you are from Nowhere-in-Particular, you are at home again.
"Allan Dorris, from Nowhere-in-Particular," he mutters after he is seated, and while watching his steaming garments.
But at worst there are always birthdays or, for nursery gifts, those even more apt occasions known as Nothing-in-particular Days.
Poor Janet, utterly ignorant of the cause, and knowing not whither she was bound, rode a mad ride to nowhere-in-particular.
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