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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a specifically" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used incorrectly as "specifically" is an adverb and does not require an article like "a."
Example: "I am looking for a specific solution to this problem."
Alternatives: "a particular" or "a certain".
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A: Specifically?
Overall, Staphopain A specifically cleaves the CXCR2 on human neutrophils.
This is not a specifically Southern attitude.
But there's also a specifically Irish twist.
Spx has a specifically American, deep south sound.
Our first major laugh involves a specifically female anatomical issue.
(The Passion play was a specifically Catholic tradition).
Charter 08 was not a specifically middle-class manifesto.
Physiological problems of a specifically sexual nature are rather few.
They are the inheritors of a specifically Russian tradition, in Mr. Fadeyechev's view.
Mr. de Botton sees such instruction as responding to a specifically English problem.
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