adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an endless/inexhaustible supply (= one that does not end, or seems not to end )
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He has an endless supply of jokes.
an infinite/endless variety
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There is a seemingly infinite variety of beers to choose from.
endless trouble (= a lot of trouble )
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They had endless trouble with the water supply.
infinite/endless/unlimited patience
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She was lucky to have a maths teacher with infinite patience.
seemingly endless/limitless (= seeming to have no end or limit )
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We motored south through Finland's seemingly endless pine forests.
steady/constant/endless etc stream
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A steady stream of visitors came to the house.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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This list is almost endless but nomatterhow small the likelihood, every possible scenario must be explored.
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In fact, the list of possible new technology driven advertising concepts is almost endless .
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Its present director is Sidney Newey, a successful career railwayman who sees almost endless possibilities for new routes.
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They will show considerable detail on the Moon, for example, and almost endless superb star-fields.
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Change-ringing combinations are almost endless , and the instruction books look like circuit diagrams for a missile.
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The Daguerreotype will be able to repay almost endless attention.
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There are, as you probably know, almost endless variations of cabling on both single and double bed.
apparently
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The consequence is an apparently endless flow of death, injury and destruction of property.
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He had apparently endless energy, producing throughout his career a steady stream of pamphlets, reviews, papers, and books.
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His art is symbolic, diagrammatic, highly decorative, repetitive and, like the landscape itself, apparently endless .
seemingly
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There are few hills to break the seemingly endless vista of lakes and forests.
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From more than a mile away, the figures are swallowed by the seemingly endless Everglades.
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Hill after seemingly endless hill take you through picturesque Broadstairs, Margate and back to Thanet.
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To some critics, this seemingly endless procession of school fund-raisers has a serious drawback.
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The seemingly endless variations and applications all circle round and reflect the single theme.
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He climbed seemingly endless stairways leading him ever upward.
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The past year has charted a rocky course for the Rialto and its advocates, with seemingly endless trials and tribulations.
■ NOUN
corridor
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Bernice continued to walk through the endless corridors .
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The huge structures have endless corridors , barren hallways like tunnels that turn back upon themselves, leading nowhere.
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Along corridors , endless corridors, with doors on either side.
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It is easy to get lost in the endless corridors of its administra tive offices.
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They are depressing, alien environments, made more dismal by drab walls and endless corridors .
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In the mornings my husband walked the endless corridors of oil power, hoping for patience to overcome impatience.
cup
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Incarcerated in Terry's room, they made do with sandwiches for dinner, and endless cups of tea.
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They are drinking endless cups of coffee and have already thrown the room service menu out of the window.
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He drank endless cups of tea, too.
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Through the night feeds, he sat transfixed, preparing endless cups of tea.
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Al Pacino sips one of the endless cups of coffee downed during a day filming.
cycle
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Thus the endless cycle of reform, repression and violent response may be about to enter a new phase.
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The lives of peasants are dictated by the arduous and endless cycle of their crops.
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Yet breaking the endless cycle of global poverty that powers these wars is achievable, Mr Annan says.
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Blaming quickiy becomes a dangerous and endless cycle that may escalate into acts of violence and crime.
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Hindus believe in an endless cycle of creation and destruction.
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Until recently her life had been an endless cycle of grinding poverty and growing hopelessness.
hours
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Even popular television war comedies were taken off the air, for fear of jarring too awkwardly with endless hours of Gulf coverage.
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My professors spent endless hours with their books.
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We spend endless hours planning where to go on holiday, or to celebrate with friends.
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You can end up a slave to the system, putting in endless hours of tedium and hating it.
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Pieces of pine from apple cases became cricket bats, tennis rackets or hockey sticks and gave them endless hours of pleasure.
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As a 3 handicapper who will no longer work endless hours , he will have a chance to hone his game.
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Father and daughter would spend endless hours at a nearby tennis court, playing pitch and catch under the lights.
list
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As you'd expect on the Isle of Wight there's an endless list of bed and breakfasts.
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The questions are concise and well worded soas to avoid endless lists of fact gathering queries.
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So what if your situation isn't perfect, or you've got an endless list of jobs to do?
night
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Coiled in on herself, Chesarynth reeled dizzy across her endless night .
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Or endless nights singing karaoke with the client at the only bar in town.
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Instead, from the spangled endless night that dimmed the hall, meanings shone.
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It had been a perfect endless night of love-making.
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The palaces of meaning that she built with Friend in the endless night inside her - what were they for?
parade
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The work kept me going, and fortunately there was lots of it, an endless parade of winter bookings.
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Back at home, he is exposed to an endless parade of eccentric guests and blundering workers.
patience
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Whatever it is, they say it hundreds of times an hour with endless patience and cheerfulness.
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Despite a shy and diffident manner, Davison was a hard-working and gifted teacher of endless patience .
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The endless patience and hospitality of the people was astounding.
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A clear head and diplomacy were vital as well as endless patience .
possibility
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Its present director is Sidney Newey, a successful career railwayman who sees almost endless possibilities for new routes.
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The endless possibilities of what could have occurred occupied me completely.
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Here, we at least were on the threshold of a new life, with all its endless possibilities .
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Mayor Brown looks at Treasure Island and sees endless possibilities .
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There are endless possibilities for good gourmet wining and dining with style, tasting the superb local delights.
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There are endless possibilities for creating teaching materials.
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There are endless possibilities for further experiments like this.
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They also opened the eyes of the audience to the endless possibilities of expressing meaning through dance.
question
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These were two ex-marines, one of whom had led the trek the previous year and who answered endless questions .
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Instead of a warm and fuzzy public relations tour during campaign season, she now faces endless questions about supposed hanky-panky.
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However she never lost control, giving polite but non-committal answers to endless questions about her feelings for the Prince.
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The Rabari women made up lies on the spot to field the endless questions about me.
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Without support or reassurance from anyone, she faced the seemingly endless questions .
repetition
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His inspiration fell on fertile ground, prepared by endless repetition .
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Escher worked in endless repetition , attainable here with a click.
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The endless repetition strikes one as inexorable, like a recurring dream.
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His parents, perplexed by this endless repetition , thought it meant that he was unable to get anything right.
round
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It saves me getting involved in all that endless round of relatives.
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People who do so condemn themselves to an endless round of debate over something they can never achieve.
series
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So you still see parties walking on glaciers unroped, or climbing easy routes in an endless series of laborious pitches.
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Slowly, aided by a remarkable memory for visual patterns, he became familiar with the endless series of new star groups.
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We were catching a bus-one in an endless series in my fugitive childhood.
stream
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She had an endless stream of admirers, and I was jealous of all of them.
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He takes great trouble over a seemingly endless stream of difficulties.
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An endless stream of self-powered ants can be sent up to the end of the cable with no further power input whatsoever!
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An endless stream of proposals had poured in for the £20 million a year it had to dispense.
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His life is an endless stream of interviews and news conferences, often back to back.
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Heriot's forwards tore into the game and won an endless stream of possession which their backs used superbly.
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The endless stream of parties, dinners and galas all seemed to draw from the same guest list.
string
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At peak times there is no let-up with an endless string of calls back-to-back.
succession
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It has survived an endless succession of changes and locations, some of which no longer exist.
supply
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And her endless supplies of Paris Match keep her in touch with the Royals.
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They keep going with an endless supply of fuel. 20,000 pints of milk and 9,000 bananas.
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Patients must not expect an endless supply of alternative drugs.
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As it brought me an endless supply of free wallop I played along with this.
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Those bidding up share prices these days must believe in an endless supply of future suckers.
time
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On Monday the endless time to fill suddenly collapsed, for Mrs Dummett developed a violent bilious attack.
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I've tried to do it endless times since but the drink just goes everywhere.
variety
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By cross-hatching, an endless variety of marks can be achieved.
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Thousands of mental states, endless varieties of love, and countless supernormal powers are dramatized in the lives of the saints.
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Negotiation is about bargaining and the latter occurs in an endless variety of forms at the workplace.
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Although the rules which provide its definition are surprisingly simple, the set itself exhibits an endless variety of highly elaborate structure.
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An endless variety of approaches is adopted.
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It displays an endless variety of moods: lonely, majestic, dangerous, fickle and serene.
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At Monticello he grew endless varieties of apples and grapes and flowers, so his use of gardening imagery is understandable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The possibilities for the use of plastics seems endless .
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We had to sit through endless meetings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At Cambridge he was always the centre of a circle of friends, willing accomplices in his endless schemes and parties.
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But to us, the swamp was a place of endless mystery and magic.
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For at least a month before Christmas we were subjected to an endless barrage of ads for fattening festive foods.
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Initially, Ishmael is completely optimistic about this endless journey, affirming both the motion and the endless uncertainty associated with it.
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One effect on the rest of us will be that we cause ourselves endless trouble by losing them.
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The huge structures have endless corridors, barren hallways like tunnels that turn back upon themselves, leading nowhere.
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The self of a thermostat system has endless internal bickering about whether to turn the furnace up or down.
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When not trying to match his 15-hour days, they regale each other with endless stories about his idiosyncrasies and absent-mindedness.