noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a miracle cure (= a very effective one that cures a serious disease )
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People always hope for a miracle cure.
perform miracles (= do things that seem impossible )
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I'm prepared to work hard to get the job done but I can't perform miracles.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
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Suddenly, the economic miracle of the past decade began to be recognized for what it was.
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Equally important was the West Berlin economic miracle .
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The main Conservative claim to national support, therefore, namely that they had worked an economic miracle , seemed increasingly shallow.
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It could disappear into the whirring computers and multicolored flow charts of the economic miracle .
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She barely mentions the economic miracle .
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That sense of compassion could vault to the surface very quickly if the economic miracle began to curdle.
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There are lots of references to bringing the crime rate down, economic miracles and all sorts of things like that.
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What is happening in the land of the economic miracle ?
great
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It is not the great economic miracle that we have heard about.
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All of this helps us to realise that a great miracle lies in the very handing on of faith.
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By some miracle all three aircraft landed safely and by an even greater miracle none of the three pilots were wounded.
minor
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Between us we had even hired a video so that we could record this minor miracle of medical history for posterity.
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From the kitchen wafts the fragrance of fresh-baked. minor miracles .
small
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It seemed like a small , sweet miracle .
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We made it through the campaign without being found out, no small miracle .
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It's a small miracle that none of the Yorkshire 10 is crushed as she lies down.
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Tonight feels like a small miracle , laughing and dancing without language.
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But rarely have sport and literature combined so seamlessly as in this small miracle of a book.
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Indeed, small miracles have been achieved in improving efficiency, shortening in-patient stay and improving facilities for day-surgery.
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It can be added that they are not mysteries, not discontinuities, not small or large miracles , and so on.
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A small miracle after the endless hiding.
■ NOUN
cure
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Unfortunately, there is no miracle cure for thinning hair but there are some very good treatments around.
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The miracle cure is when the patient helped cure himself..
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Salesmen sell miracle cures for all kinds of diseases.
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The alternatives have very seldom been tested in any scientific way, and their promises of miracle cures are usually anecdotal.
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Yet levitation and miracle cures were not unknown.
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And miracle cures had become almost religious lore.
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If so, tax cuts would be the miracle cure .
drug
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I can call myself lucky because streptomycin, the miracle drug , is newly available.
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The fear of chemicals can also delay new miracle drugs from entering the market.
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Last week medical research came up with another miracle drug .
■ VERB
achieve
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David Kent seemed to be achieving near miracles .
believe
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People actually believe he performs miracles .
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Two boys, perched upon a wall, surprise A gesture and believe the miracle .
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So unless you believe in unproven economic miracles , the alternative is busting the budget.
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I happen to believe in miracles , but it would be sheer folly to depend on them.
call
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A miracle is called for, but miracles do happen and we just need to find the villa, that's all.
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What they call the miracle of electricity.
expect
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You weren't supposed to expect miracles , not in this world.
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He will not expect miracles , only a reasonable standard of proficiency.
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And perhaps they expected to see more miracles today.
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If you have had a weight problem for a long time, do not expect a miracle in a few weeks.
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None of them expects miracles in the economy this year and growth forecasts range from a bare 0.2 percent to 2 percent.
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Ray Hankin could not be expected to work miracles with the team he inherited from Frank Gray.
happen
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I happen to believe in miracles , but it would be sheer folly to depend on them.
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So they would tell each other it had happened , a lovely miracle which made the cruel death seem less cruel.
hope
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As the fiery blush mounted her cheeks, she shook his hand briefly, desperately hoping for a miracle .
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She knew it, but she was hoping for a miracle .
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Took her to the vet, hoping for miracle .
need
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They needed a miracle and that miracle was me, Les Bence.
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Does it sound to you as though it would need a miracle to make randomly jostling atoms join together into a self-replicating molecule?
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We were in their hands and obviously we needed a miracle to get us out.
occur
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It is a position of danger where miracles of healing may occur but miracles of disaster also.
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One of his most popular miracles occurred one day while plowing.
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As often happens in summer, a climatic miracle occurred .
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The miracles which have since occurred at his grave have confirmed his holiness.
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Thus most of the miracles occur in these three separate periods.
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The miracle occurred just as predicted.
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Unfortunately, no miracle occurred , and it is recorded that the child was left abandoned.
perform
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Having performed a healing miracle , she is packed off to a remote convent.
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Tony Freeman prays that he can perform a miracle .
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Cloughie has performed miracles with limited resources at his disposal.
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People actually believe he performs miracles .
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Stalls were out and there were mummers performing miracle plays.
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She had the gift of prophecy, performed many miracles and is known to have mysteriously supplied food for the convent.
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Such an accusation is hardly likely to have been invented by his enemies if he had not performed miracles .
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He even performed a miracle to prove his innocence.
seem
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It seemed a near miracle that it got off to a relatively smooth start, politically speaking, in 1921-2.
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That the child was so large and active seemed something of a miracle .
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Such people seem to connect miracle and faith like this: This idea is not the one found in the Synoptic Gospels.
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Because of this modern definition of miracles many people seem to think miracles do not happen very often today.
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But somehow it seemed like a miracle .
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For our decade-conscious brains, an event that happens only once per aeon is so rare as to seem a major miracle .
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From here to chanson twelve is hell to heaven but our game old poet seemed to work his miracle .
work
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Why should anyone mind a person working miracles ?
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The intuitive answer, and the one that we would all like to believe, is that it has worked a miracle .
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And she has already been known, you tell me, to work miracles .
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A hired hand who worked miracles and shared what little he had with those few who were less fortunate.
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Whereas for me she works miracles .
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But she was still paralyzed, and they could work no miracle .
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If he can work miracles in me, you have no problem.
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Even if animosity worked miracles in bringing about good grades, would it be worth it?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Genetic testing is indeed a scientific miracle .
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It'll be a miracle if we get to the airport in time.
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Manley's hope for an economic miracle in Jamaica was not realized.
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She performed many miracles and had the gift of prophecy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A number of miracles have been attributed to him, due to the unearthing.
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And she has already been known, you tell me, to work miracles.
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And then the miracle Ellie was still praying for happened.
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Both instances were examples of those soccer healing miracles, as Estrada was able to continue play moments later.
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But she was still paralyzed, and they could work no miracle .
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But then a man like him was in no need of miracles.
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I can call myself lucky because streptomycin, the miracle drug, is newly available.
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It is a position of danger where miracles of healing may occur but miracles of disaster also.