I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hitherto unknown
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a species of fish hitherto unknown in the West
of unknown origin (= used to say that no one knows where, when, or how something started )
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an ancient folk tale of unknown origin
of unknown parentage (= nobody knows who his parents were )
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He was born in France in 1670 of unknown parentage .
person or persons unknown
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murder by person or persons unknown
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almost
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In the nineteenth century such arrests were almost unknown .
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Pilfering, which can add millions to the cost of a modern project, was almost unknown .
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Eric Touchaleaume looks back more than fifty years, with twelve almost unknown works by Max Ernst.
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The M79 is almost unknown outside military circles.
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That is certainly a contributing factor, but similar conditions obtain in other countries where kidnapping is almost unknown .
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Fresh vegetables and fruit were almost unknown .
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The condition is, however, almost unknown among healthy men of the same age as those in the survey.
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For half a century it was almost unknown .
completely
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Sold to the museum by the New York conservator Mario Modestini, its early history is completely unknown .
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Given his statistical results, he conjectured the existence of some otherwise completely unknown feature - the genetic code.
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They don't want a completely unknown counsellor to come in at this time.
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There is nowhere in the Old World where the threat of marauding greenskins is completely unknown .
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There may be many different bacterial species completely unknown because they can not be cultured.
hitherto
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This has uncovered some interesting findings - for instance the hitherto unknown demand for 3.3V chips from desktop system designers.
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We are amid corruption of a hitherto unknown scale but not without some precedent.
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But Brindley's canal from the coal-mines at Worsley to Manchester had several features hitherto unknown .
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Isabel trembled, half afraid, half shocked, at such shameless, hitherto unknown longings.
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It now remains to ask whether there is any significance in this hitherto unknown fact.
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No details are given of this hitherto unknown organisation, but the platform put forward by the paper looks like pure Thatcherism.
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Recently a hitherto unknown phenomenon has appeared in Illela: property speculation.
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This meant seeking out even more diverse wines from hitherto unknown sources, which further taxed the new-found art of blending.
largely
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Although largely unknown in Britain, Lafaille has an impressive rock climbing curriculum vitae.
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But on the national level they are novices, limited specialists or largely unknown quantities.
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He possesses non-physical properties and energies that are still largely unknown and uncharted by traditional science.
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Rick Lazio, 42, a moderate from Long Island who is largely unknown statewide but carries little obvious baggage.
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He was largely unknown to football when last June he was introduced to Edwards, the chairman and majority shareholder of United.
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Tributes were largely unknown to Ford's injected Cologne V6, but it is a worthy enough trooper.
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Derrick Smith, remains largely unknown even on this Marine Corps base where he is stationed.
previously
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This special afternoon sale will put on offer an album of fifty-eight previously unknown drawings by Henry Fuseli.
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It was a remarkable discovery, a previously unknown chemical process that Knittle had stumbled on to.
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The essence of research, surely, must be the revelation of previously unknown facts.
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The researchers now believe they have identified the culprit: a previously unknown strain of herpes virus.
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Most important of all he has run down a number of performances previously unknown .
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But it also contained information previously unknown to either Tanimizu or Sakaida.
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The cause was eventually tracked down to a previously unknown bacterium, given the name Legionella pneumophila.
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Overnight a panic spiral of previously unknown proportions will develop.
relatively
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In some cultures, critical analysis of texts is relatively unknown and may, indeed, be thought offensive.
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McCarthy, with his unpredictability, and the relatively unknown McGovern were not his kind of candidate.
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Zara is relatively unknown outside Ulster so we have featured her in our Second Set series elsewhere in this issue.
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The critics reserved their worst words for the relatively unknown George Corraface, who plays Columbus.
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He was relatively unknown , but was praised by Iliescu for his grasp of the country's economic problems.
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It was inherent in the project that Blackeyes should be played by a relatively unknown , inexperienced actress.
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Part of the reason she's been relatively unknown there is that she was not a public figure.
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The relatively unknown signing from homespun Grimsby was elevated to star status over a week-end.
still
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Police are working on some leads, but the motive for the attack is still unknown .
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However, it is still unknown how much of that money came from Florida investors, she said.
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Whether only the codon 129 genotype contributes to the molecular basis of this anticipation phenomenon is still unknown .
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The precise cause of this serious disease is still unknown .
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McQueen's most fruitful period in films had been in the sixties while Dustin was still unknown outside off-Broadway.
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What factors determine whether the virus remains dormant or begins reproduction are still unknown .
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The significance of the orientation of fields in Central Veracruz is still unknown .
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But the nature of that involvement and the degree to which it is manifested in a given alcoholic is still unknown .
totally
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A father may choose to be totally unknown to both mother and child by supplying his semen to a sperm bank.
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On the other hand, there is the lay congregation, to whom biblical scholarship is totally unknown territory.
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As for Wayne Pollock and Clive Smott, they are totally unknown quantities.
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Not that the Soviets were totally unknown before that.
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The successful one was made by a couple totally unknown in Teesdale.
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I had already seen pictures by Popova, Klyun, and other artists who were then totally unknown .
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For reasons now totally unknown , people in the past had chosen to travel to this field to weigh various substances.
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But it's less risky than pointing to totally unknown items on a menu.
virtually
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They must be less common in wine-drinking regions and virtually unknown in strictly Mohammedan countries.
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Even more than most of his predecessors, Gorbachev was virtually unknown in the West when he came to power.
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Union membership is virtually unknown except for isolated technicians like film projection people.
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As an accurate observer of, and extensive traveller in, a virtually unknown land he was unrivalled.
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He was virtually unknown in the United States.
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Atheism is virtually unknown in pagan and rural societies, but this new rationalism will usher it into the modern world.
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Materialism has until recently been virtually unknown in Confucian societies.
■ NOUN
cause
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The stage I patient died 8 years after diagnosis from an unknown cause .
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They seem more like a symbol of some unknown cause than just six ounces each of chunk white packed in spring water.
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A baby died later from unknown causes .
factor
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In addition, it is possible that hypertension and obesity are linked by a common but as yet unknown factor .
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Research has indicated that narcoleptics have a set of genes that are triggered by unknown factors to cause narcolepsy.
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The unknown factor is the cost of copper.
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An unknown factor , analysts said, is the tribulations of the ruling Conservative government.
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The present study indicates that H pylori infection is not the unknown factor .
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The unknown factor is whether this absence will force the national selectors to look elsewhere.
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Its position will also depend on the whereabouts of the bridge across the river, which is another unknown factor .
number
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The demonstrators attacked and burned buildings and cars; the soldiers responded by opening fire, killing an unknown number of demonstrators.
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One teen-ager was reported killed, and an unknown number injured.
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Six letters at the end of 47 and an unknown number of lines below are lost.
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On the other hand, an unknown number of heterosexuals do.
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An unknown number of vaquita, probably in the hundreds, had already been lost.
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The conductor stated that there were 22 passengers inside the car and 33 outside, plus an unknown number of children.
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An unknown number of people died or were wounded in clashes with troops.
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As many as 200 civilians and an unknown number of military personnel died during heavy fighting between government and rebel forces.
origin
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We found that 20 of the estimates originated from six source studies, with one being of unknown origin .
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With the exception of computed tomography most radiological investigations can not identify the primary tumour in metastatic disease of unknown origin .
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Gorich etal found the primary site by computed tomography in 58% of 31 patients with metastatic disease of unknown origin .
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Since metastases of unknown origins are usually poorly differentiated the sensitivity of testing with these antibodies would also be reduced.
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Products of unknown origin I am surprised at just how many products show no manufacturer's address.
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Some patients with metastasis of unknown origin do have responsive tumours.
person
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On Aug. 24 the state prosecutor, Nurullo Khuvaidullayev, had been murdered by unknown persons in Dushanbe.
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The kindness of this unknown person was too much for Joan who broke down and wept.
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Joan asked Sunday Life to thank the unknown person who had taken the time to care for her son's grave.
quantity
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Labour and the Conservatives have pitched high profile candidates into this unknown quantity .
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But on the national level they are novices, limited specialists or largely unknown quantities .
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Here the X s are the unknown quantities .
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But even after redeployment, war will be the status quo in the Holy Land, peace the unknown quantity .
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A conceivable problem for the Solo is its price - £39,850 is a lot to pay for an unknown quantity .
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As an enemy, he was still very much an unknown quantity to them.
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Barnes was an unknown quantity , without any clear prejudice on the nuclear issue.
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Swales said he had a lot of flair, but admitted he was an unknown quantity .
reason
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Physically she had a lot more to offer than Kate, but for some unknown reason he really fancied the policewoman.
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In the world before Newton, events often seemed to happen for mysterious, unknown reasons .
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For some unknown reason it has moved eleven times.
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For unknown reasons , a squad of police marched into the black suburb of Brownsville.
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In 1919 for some unknown reason he arrived in Darlington and became landlord of the Cleaver Hotel in Skinnergate.
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For some unknown reason , this plan did not eventuate in a critical edition.
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For some unknown reason , the blinds were always drawn, giving it a depressing atmosphere.
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For some unknown reason , racial riots during the Depression were almost nonexistent.
territory
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On the other hand, there is the lay congregation, to whom biblical scholarship is totally unknown territory .
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The time had come to get off the fence and begin to walk into what was unknown territory .
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And if you venture into unknown territory , how can you avoid getting lost?
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With astonishing technical virtuosity, the genetics revolution is pushing out into unknown territory .
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He acted as the intellectual cavalry, seeking out new fields, harrying the enemy with his pen and probing unknown territory .
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It was a significant archaeological enterprise advancing into unknown territory in the small towns of Roman Britain.
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She, on the other hand, was in unknown territory .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After they left Kathmandu they would be travelling through unknown territory.
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an unknown artist
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As an unknown author, it isn't easy to get your work published.
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For some unknown reason, Fred quit his job and moved to Alaska.
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Horn was beaten by a relatively unknown politician in the last election.
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Most of the stars in the movie are unknown to US audiences.
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She said the flowers were from an unknown admirer.
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The Internet has opened up a marketplace where sellers and buyers are virtually unknown to each other.
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The picture was painted in the 15th Century by an unknown Italian artist.
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The year of Gabor's birth is unknown .
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There are still a great many unknown insect species in the world.
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Until their first single, the Beatles were virtually unknown outside Hamburg and Liverpool.
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We met near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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Yesterday the village was quite unknown , but today it's on the front page of all the newspapers.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a movie made with a cast of complete unknowns
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After 30 years in show business, Butler is still an unknown .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A new version is in the pipeline in which unknowns will be replaced by celebrities.