I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a football/music/essay etc competition
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There’s a music competition in the town on June 12th.
an exam essay/script (= that someone has written during an exam )
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I’ve brought in some old exam scripts for us to look at.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
critical
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Over 500 critical essays cover directors as diverse as Peter Bogdanovich and Tom Shadyac.
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She has written more than 30 books of fiction, poetry and critical essays .
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She is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays .
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To what extent should Heaney's poetry be described and assessed in terms drawn from his own critical essays ?
famous
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But Robert, on that evening, was dipping back to a famous essay by the great Cambridge economist.
introductory
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In his introductory essay , Vincent Scully maintains that Kahn would be disappointed by contemporary architecture and the work of his followers.
literary
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We argue strongly that practice in writing should not be confined to the literary essay .
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In a literary essay , however, you should be cautious about leaving out the actor in a passive sentence.
long
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The catalogue is 300 pages long with eight essays , as well as artists' biographies.
recent
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Take one of your recent essays and rewrite the introduction according to the pattern suggested.
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As the current editor of Granta, Ian Jack, pointed out in a recent essay for Conde
short
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The photographs are excellent, clustered with captions after an explanatory essay , or in some cases a series of short essays.
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The book is a haunting, 96-page anthology of poems and short essays .
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Write a short essay explaining your reasons.
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In the 1920s Pearson resumed his acting career but also began publishing short stories, essays , and journalism.
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For most short coursework essays , this may well be enough.
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begin
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But you should begin a history essay long before you are faced with actually writing it.
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Amelia began to feel better-the essay she wrote on car mechanics, a course requirement, won first prize.
contain
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Last week's Ha'aretz newspaper contained an extraordinary essay , all the more remarkable for being published in the current climate.
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The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue containing two excellent essays by Rosemary Betterton and Angela McRobbie.
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A more quintessentially Formalist approach to narrative is contained in Shklovsky's essay on Tristram Shandy.
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The 400 page catalogue from Prestel Verlag contains essays by twenty-five leading archaeologists and ethnographers.
include
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The catalogue includes an essay by Robert Motherwell and extracts from Cornell's own diaries.
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Susskind Eikhl might include my essay in the anthology he was planning.
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They cover three detailed studies and include an extensive essay comprising 40 percent of the assessment.
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This original paperback includes stories, essays and poems that celebrate motherhood.
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This may include essays , seminar papers, seminar presentations, projects, case studies, laboratory work, performances or exhibitions.
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Both of these issues include an informative booklet essay .
publish
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A few years later Albert Camus persuaded Gallimard to publish her essays , notebooks and letters.
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If I could publish nine more essays , I would become a member of the Writers' Club.
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In the 1920s Pearson resumed his acting career but also began publishing short stories, essays , and journalism.
read
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The next day, she is reading another essay when he comes home from work.
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Ann Tabachnikov often asked students to read in class the essays they had written at home.
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News stories often read like editorials or essays .
write
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He reluctantly agreed to write the essay and then did not.
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Their friendship had been sealed in second grade when the entire class was asked to write essays on their fathers.
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It views writing essays not as a series of isolated events but as the dynamic process of developing a skill.
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Then write an essay that proved they understood it and explained how they reached their conclusions.
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It sounded fascinating so I decided to find the book to write this essay .
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And DeloresDelores rambled, but she wrote the most elaborate essay her teacher had yet seen her produce.
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BNo wonder Berlin wrote essays rather than complete books.
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Allen says she will give the deli to the person who writes the best essay or poem or song.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
collected works/poems/essays/edition
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Box sets collect music into greatest hits, anthologies, chronologies, complete collected works, best-of and worst-of packages.
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He took down a copy of Wordsworth's collected poems.
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His collected works, he said, probably fill four foot ten of shelf space.
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Its author Tom Holt began, if I remember right, by publishing his collected poems at the age of 12.
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Mr Zhivkov's 44-volume collected works has disappeared from Sofia's bookshops since he was removed.
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My collected works rendered the Horsehead Nebula, goofy space cruisers, robots, and Saturn.
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They were first printed by William Caxton in 1475; the collected works were first illustrated by William Thynne in 1532.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An essay differs in form from a poem.
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But you should begin a history essay long before you are faced with actually writing it.
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Exercises were devised to help students test their comprehension of the materials either by essay or by solving concrete problems.
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It sounded fascinating so I decided to find the book to write this essay .
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Secondary sources for A level essays will probably be the work of historians.
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These moral essays advanced other theories in harmony with sentimental comedy.
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This original paperback includes stories, essays and poems that celebrate motherhood.
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Winship's essay also draws attention to the increasing fragmentation of the body within recent commercial photography.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He swayed to the music and essayed a little dance step.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Shan't you essay any alteration in your finances?