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The phrase "a single specific" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to emphasize one particular item or detail among others.
Example: "In this study, we will focus on a single specific variable that influences the outcome."
Alternatives: "one particular" or "a distinct".
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But being an expert in a single, specific memory game isn't exactly a useful life skill.
Most tool-using species only use their aid of choice for a single specific reason.
Ciancia brings another quality: "A lot of times with Keefus it's about finding a single, specific sound," Holmes says.
Policies often reflect this – focussing on getting people into a single specific job with training schemes or apprenticeships.
Mr. Brennan didn't acknowledge that a single specific killing had been carried out.
"I did not have a single specific person in front of my eyes when [preparing] the amnesty," he said.
It's only been two days and I can't remember a single specific thing about the Presidential debate besides Big Bird.
He could thank Lord Jenkins for focusing the debate on a single specific alternative to the existing system.
(2) A "healthy" individual may have developed an allergy, perhaps during early childhood, to a single specific substance.
By now, a full 16 minutes had passed, and we still hadn't talked about a single specific piece of what would be his antiterrorism strategy in the White House.
Shakespeare admits no such ambiguity in Brutus's speech to Cassius in Julius Caesar: "There is a tide in the affairs of men/ Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune…" A single, specific tide, note.
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