noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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complex
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Most of the difficulty stems from the fact that an eruption is an extremely complex phenomenon .
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The Industrial Revolution is a complex phenomenon .
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Rather, it reflects the need for different conceptualizations to cover the different dimensions of a highly complex phenomenon .
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No single strategy or tactic will resolve such a complex phenomenon as inter-group conflict.
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There is some truth in this simple account of the rise of semi-literacy, but in fact it is a complex phenomenon .
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First, because of its multidimensional nature, power is a complex phenomenon .
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Previous research has shown that trust is a complex phenomenon and a variety of new measures are needed to capture its complexity.
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Crime is a complex social phenomenon with no single cause or solution.
cultural
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He thereby pays less attention than he might to interpreting the science of art as a cultural phenomenon .
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This preoccupation with death and judgment was not merely a cultural phenomenon it was deliberate.
general
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He asks whether a general phenomenon would cease to be a feature of a society if particular individuals held different beliefs.
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Since this is a general phenomenon it calls for a general explanation, interesting as individual instances may be.
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And he concludes that, since it would not, the individual beliefs can not be the explanation of the general phenomenon .
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The assimilation of legacy and trust is not, then, a general phenomenon but is related somehow to Scaevola in particular.
modern
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Is it an illusion to imagine that this is a merely modern phenomenon ? he wrote.
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The distortion, however, is a modern phenomenon .
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This, I guess, must have been a post-post-\#modern phenomenon .
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This is a modern phenomenon and also related to the growth of modern corporate enterprise.
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It all seems a peculiarly modern phenomenon .
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Like social movements, political parties are a modern phenomenon .
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Family sentiment linked to a particular place is not a modern phenomenon .
natural
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Instead they see low concentrations of magnesium as a natural phenomenon exacerbated by air pollution.
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It is regarded as a purely natural phenomenon which, by an unusual coincidence, occurs in the walls of their convent.
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And nomatterhow minor that discovery is, there is a peculiar excitement about understanding some natural phenomenon for the first time.
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He told the story of what had occurred as if it were a natural phenomenon , not mechanical failing or human error.
new
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Machismo is a New World phenomenon with roots in old world cultures.
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Illiteracy is not a new phenomenon in the United States.
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A new phenomenon is identified in some prisons.
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This is not a new phenomenon .
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Thus, what is happening in the Republican Party in 1996 is not a new phenomenon .
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Running away from home is not a new phenomenon .
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The movement of peoples from East to West is a newer phenomenon .
rare
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All this results in a rare phenomenon: Marks and Spencer is a company people are fond of.
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Nevertheless, the expulsion of a bishop was a relatively rare phenomenon .
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This is not a rare phenomenon .
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This will exclude the counter-examples, but it will also make knowledge a rare phenomenon at best.
recent
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Background and History Compacts are a comparatively recent phenomenon .
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Indeed, the notion that all students should engage in serious academic work and learn it deeply is a relatively recent phenomenon .
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The problem of deposits on soft contact lenses is not a recent or unique phenomenon .
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A recent phenomenon has been the development of groups for adults who grew up with an alcoholic parent.
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Compulsory state education for all is, in the historical sense, a recent phenomenon .
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We should also remember that official disapproval is a recent phenomenon .
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Comprehensive food labelling is a fairly recent phenomenon .
similar
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Daedalus now points out that the solar wind is an exactly similar phenomenon .
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Among certain kinds of self-defeating organiza-tions, we see a similar phenomenon at work.
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A somewhat similar phenomenon occurred with the ships that the Vikings used as coffins.
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Since glow-worms, fireflies, electric eels and many fish exhibit a similar phenomenon , the statement is not unrealistic.
social
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Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon , and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists.
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To explain a social phenomenon is therefore to capture its uniqueness and show why it happened when it need not have done.
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Crime is a complex social phenomenon with no single cause or solution.
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When women ponder on an individual, emotion or social phenomenon , it is called Gossip.
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It follows that punishment - or indeed any social phenomenon - is an inevitably highly complex phenomenon which requires extremely subtle analysis.
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Other research sets out to explain a social phenomenon .
temporary
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The demise of jobs is such a shift: people are still calling it a temporary phenomenon .
universal
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Thus it can be seen how a practice which has little educational validity can become a universal phenomenon .
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But trade in slaves has been a universal phenomenon , affecting all primitive societies.
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However, although the closed shop is a feature of some unions, it is not a universal phenomenon .
whole
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The important aspect of Johnson's statement is that he dismisses the whole phenomenon of labouring poets as misapplied patronage.
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Let us for the time being not take a stand on this issue but address ourselves to the whole phenomenon in its strong sense.
■ VERB
become
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Eventually the whole viewfield becomes white by this phenomenon .
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H.. Norman Schwarzkopf, to become a media phenomenon .
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Thus it can be seen how a practice which has little educational validity can become a universal phenomenon .
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By 1976, the show had become a national phenomenon .
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They became a worldwide phenomenon and are still in circulation.
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Dissent, hitherto confined to a number of intellectuals, became a mass phenomenon with the Protestant Church playing a leading role.
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It has become a huge phenomenon since the beginning of the 90s.
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Aggression becomes a category or phenomenon whose presence or absence is a matter for empirical investigation.
call
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The demise of jobs is such a shift: people are still calling it a temporary phenomenon .
explain
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Parliamentary answers intended to explain the phenomenon left a messy impression.
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Ever try explaining the Monkees phenomenon to your kids?
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Lucas has advanced certain ingenious theoretical devices to explain the phenomenon of persistence which we shall examine later in this chapter.
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I can not explain this phenomenon: I merely record it.
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Chomsky explains this phenomenon by suggesting that human individuals are innately endowed with a deep structure grammar of language.
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All sorts of theories to explain the phenomenon have been advanced, but as far as I am concerned, it works.
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But it is not prepared to accept that the mathematical models developed to explain the phenomenon are sufficiently proven.
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This is a clear example of attempting to explain an unknown phenomenon by means of models based on known phenomena.
observe
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It had not always been possible for him to observe the phenomenon on his own.
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I sat in cafés or stood in bus queues observing the phenomenon of heterosexuality.
occur
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If you had that sort of phenomenon occur you have to take note of it.
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What some consider an isolated situation in Tucson Water is actually a phenomenon occurring the world over, according to Ullery.
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He argues that Marxist accounts assume that the phenomenon occurs solely due to the needs of corporations and their owners.
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This phenomenon occurs on a broader level as well, although the dynamics are somewhat different.
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We can see why this phenomenon should occur .
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That apart, a strange phenomenon has occurred .
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The phenomenon occurs because the falling rain or snow closest to the light reflects some of it.
understand
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And nomatterhow minor that discovery is, there is a peculiar excitement about understanding some natural phenomenon for the first time.
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Evidence strongly suggests that a serious problem exists and research is needed to better understand this phenomenon and its causes.
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There is no attempt to understand or explain the phenomenon in terms of wider social forces.
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Although our early behavioral observations often stimulated productive studies, they often misled us in our understanding of a specific phenomenon .
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Strengthened by his ability to understand the phenomenon of sound, early man became conscious of the creative power inherent in it.
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I wanted to understand the phenomenon at an individual, a social and a sociological level.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Still walking five miles a day at the age of 95, the woman was an absolute phenomenon .
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The cell phone is a relatively recent phenomenon . It's difficult at the moment to assess its effects.
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the increasing phenomenon of the single parent family
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We now know that our system of planets orbiting the sun is not a unique phenomenon .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A new phenomenon is identified in some prisons.
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He is yet another phenomenon of questionable tangibility to emerge from the twelfth century.
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In dealing with this new phenomenon , I have two points to make.
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Industrial ReD in the public sector is a relatively new phenomenon and the expectations from it are not very clear.
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Is it an illusion to imagine that this is a merely modern phenomenon ? he wrote.
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The same phenomenon was observed in New York.
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Then an interesting phenomenon takes place: they become a safety valve.