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The phrase "a certain delicacy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific sensitivity or nuance in a situation, often relating to handling matters with care or tact.
Example: "When discussing the topic of mental health, one must approach it with a certain delicacy to avoid offending anyone."
Alternatives: "a particular sensitivity" or "a specific nuance".
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TALKING TO UNEMPLOYED friends and colleagues requires a certain delicacy.
This game requires mental ferocity and a certain delicacy.
Mr. Baker won out for his elegance and a certain delicacy.
Even though he almost always works in masonry, his buildings have a certain delicacy.
Instead, I dip the cakes in only flour and egg, which gives them a certain delicacy.
I think that there's a freedom there, for a certain delicacy".
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Now a matter of certain delicacy: Chuck Knoblauch.
But while Russians are having to do without certain delicacies, the bans are feeding a new wave of patriotism.
Halliday and Matthiessen (1999: 325 326), for instance, discuss delicacy in the following way: pitching an analysis at a certain level of delicacy is a conscious choice on the part of the linguist that should take into account the use that can be made out of that description.
The price fluctuates with the season and the availability of certain delicacies.
There are certain delicacies made there, of which my mum thought, [I'll send them to Joanie].
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