particularly

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particularly (not comparable)

(focus) Especially, extremely.
The apéritifs were particularly stimulating.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
  We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.
- 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:
  One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools […] as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
(degree) To a great extent.
Specifically, uniquely or individually.
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:
  But as the half progressed, Liverpool's pressure and high-tempo passing game increased United's frustration and it threatened to boil over on the stroke of half-time when Van Persie, who had already been booked, was involved in angry verbal exchanges with several Liverpool players, particularly Gerrard.
In detail; with regard to particulars.
(dated) In a particular manner; fussily.
- 1825, Oxberry's dramatic biography and histrionic anecdotes
  He, rather too particularly perhaps, avoids public company, and is the very reverse of a bon vivant.

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