adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a categorical denial (= saying very definitely that something is not true )
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Her categorical denial conflicted with the evidence.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
assurance
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Can the Minister give us a categorical assurance that that will not happen?
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Will my right hon. Friend give me a categorical assurance that that order was decided solely on price?
grant
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The Senate plan thus anticipated simplifying the review process characteristic of the categorical grants .
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The second distribution was for hold-harmless grants to protect users of the categorical grants from a sudden loss of this money.
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C., and generally increased the awareness of local officials about the new revenue sources represented by categorical grants .
imperative
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Perhaps the exemplar of this surrealist categorical imperative was Antonin Artaud.
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But how can I know what the categorical imperatives binding on me are?
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The first thing to realize is that it must consist in categorical imperatives , which are to be distinguished from hypothetical imperatives.
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To pass unscathed into the inner sanctum of the wave is the categorical imperative of surfing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Weber's agent issued a categorical denial that the incident had ever happened.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Whitehall sources dismissed the call and underlined Sir Patrick's own categorical statement.
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Evolution of ordered categorical data in each group was assessed by the Wilcoxon rank sum test.
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For many outer-city and middle-class speakers, a raised vowel is already categorical in all environments.
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It ultimately relies on the notion that we order our world through the categorical distinctions of our language.
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Since career development is mandated by state and federal categorical funds, the program is impossible to jettison.
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The counselor would then electronically graze the 70 categorical pots of money.
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The Senate plan thus anticipated simplifying the review process characteristic of the categorical grants.
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Where deviance has a categorical , unproblematic quality, a penal response is triggered.