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The phrase "anything but specific" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to indicate that something is vague or general, rather than detailed or precise. Example: "The instructions provided were anything but specific, leaving us confused about what to do next."
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It does not quite reach the heights of Orwellian Newspeak, hyperbole is probably good enough, but what exactly is so super about Major League Soccer's so-called SuperDraft? (This from the outfit that has given us "soccer-specific stadiums" that are anything but specific to soccer).
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File it, but don't be lulled into thinking it covers anything but that specific account.
Whether one comes out of that investigation embracing a broader – albeit perhaps vaguer – set of concepts and tools than one started off with, or whether one considers oneself forced to abandon any hope of anything but very specific theories of art, artist, and artistic experience, conceptual art obliges us to think about where we stand on these issues.
Valenti replaced the code with a movie ratings system that permitted anything but gave films specific codes, originally G, M, R and X. Clever.
It's not meant to represent anything very specific, but more to invoke that feeling".
Koskinen declined to respond to anything remotely specific, but was willing to lay out the basic law.
It doesn't have to be anything really specific, but a successful event tends to have a consistent feeling throughout.
The current owner is loathe to talk about anything but the prices of specific rooms, and his wife glares at me over his shoulder.
Mr. Ziercke said that the bomb probably reached Germany on a plane but that anything more specific would be speculation.
There may be some prior discussion about which subjects people within the community surrounding the event might like to hear about, but never anything more specific than that.
The broad goals of less spending and lower taxes were clear enough, but on anything more specific the politicians and activists on the grassroots right seemed confused about what they thought the party should to be negotiating toward, or what they expected that their calls for harder hardball and/or cliff-diving would actually win in the end.
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