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area, arena, bailiwick, barony, business, circle, demesne, department, discipline, domain, element, fief, fiefdom, field, firmament, front, game, kingdom, line, precinct, province, realm, sphere, terrain, walk
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Adding a space specialty to the TPS program seems like a natural extension, but establishing a specialist school represents a cultural shift for the storied organization. — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, "The Air Force's Most Famous Pilot School Is Going To Space," 3 Sep. 2019 Financing ostensibly harebrained schemes is an Affeldt specialty. — Susan Spano, Los Angeles Times, "The Castañeda reopens in Las Vegas, N.M., thanks to an entrepreneur with a soft spot for historic hotels," 31 Aug. 2019 Pathology was a hard-to-recruit specialty, and one vital to serving a growing population of veterans retiring to the mountains at the junction of northwest Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma and southwest Missouri, known as the Ozarks. — Anchorage Daily News, "How Veterans Affairs failed to stop a pathologist who misdiagnosed 3,000 cases," 30 Aug. 2019 This is not a specialty or back-burner issue for me. — New York Times, "Pete Buttigieg Was Rising. Then Came South Bend’s Policing Crisis.," 30 Aug. 2019 The three flavors are inspired by your favorite characters from the Crawley home and retail for $12.50 each, both online and also in specialty retailers across the country. — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, "Downton Abbey Movie Teas Are Here and Our Mugs Are Ready," 15 Aug. 2019 Smaller, specialty retailers like O’Reilly Automotive Inc. and Tractor Supply Co. both hiked prices in the second quarter, largely in response to existing tariffs in place. — Matthew Boyle, Fortune, "Walmart’s Low-Price Strategy Under Pressure," 12 Aug. 2019 Likewise, when the company bought Abercrombie & Fitch for $47 million in 1988, the century-old chain — at the time an outdoor specialty retailer — had already gone bankrupt once. — Hilary George-parkin, Vox, "For at least a decade, the man behind Victoria’s Secret and The Limited was the disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker’s only known client.," 26 July 2019 Although a lion's share of Kill Cliff's business consists of direct-to-consumer sales, a good portion of the sales from brick-and-mortar sellers come from mom-and-pop natural food and specialty retailers. — Alicia Wallace, CNN, "CBD product sales are booming. Now the FDA needs to weigh in," 9 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'specialty.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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