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But his self-imposed deadline in the sport - before embarking on four years of dental school and a further two years of specialisation - is only serving to enhance his enjoyment of this current assignment.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025

"It would be great to do more longitudinal-type studies to continue building our knowledge of male southern elephant seal specialisation and its impacts."

From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2024

Dr Penn-Clarke elaborates, "We think that cooler conditions allowed for the creation of circumpolar thermal barriers -- essentially, ocean currents near the poles -- that isolated these animals and led to their specialisation."

From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2023

Over the next five decades in politics he developed a specialisation in diplomatic negotiations, skills which would see President Clinton tap him as his envoy to the UN in 1997.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2023

In the course of specialisation of function, as I have outlined, just as other organs arose, so arose sex-differentiation.

From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack