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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a specific man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a particular individual among a group or category of men.
Example: "I am looking for a specific man who can help us with this project."
Alternatives: "a particular man" or "an individual man".
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We get the impression that Joyce has been in love for decades not with a specific man but with herself as the heroine of a grand, undying passion.
Unlike most African figurative works, it depicts a specific man not as he was at the time of his death, but as a young man in the prime of his life.
There were certainly several persons accepted as Messiahs by various writers in various circumstances, yet these documents from the Dead Sea cave do seem to refer to a specific man.
The latter is what Russians refer to as taking bread out of a specific man's mouth, and this is the most dangerous.
The Angels' manager had been reticent to name a specific man for the role.
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When such duplicative sources are possible, making the association of the laboratory data with exposure to a specific man-made agent can be very difficult (Dettmer and Hammock 2004).
If you find yourself drawn to a specific gay man, invite him out for a coffee or drink afterward.
In other words, memory is montage, an observation that suggests there may be more to this specific man in motion than his cubistic portrait reveals.
A within-household selection procedure described by Kish was used to select the specific man or woman to be interviewed.
SL: You'll have to be more specific, man.
What was my role, we wonder after watching the Netflix series, in logging 10 hours observing this specific man's precarious situation?
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