adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a balanced approach (= considering everything in a sensible way )
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The President spoke in favour of a calm and balanced approach.
a balanced diet (= including all the types of food that people need )
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A balanced diet is important for a child’s development.
a balanced meal (= with some of each type of food, to keep you healthy )
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We make healthy, balanced meals for our children.
balanced on a knife-edge
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His future in the job is balanced on a knife-edge .
balanced precariously
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a cup of tea balanced precariously on her knee
balanced (= with a mix of academic and practical subjects )
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We want to ensure a balanced curriculum for all pupils.
evenly balanced
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The prospects for the country are fairly evenly balanced between peaceful reform and revolution.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Southern coast seaside resorts also improved through their ability to attract a more balanced age structure.
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The glass surfaces became more important, especially in side view, giving the production car a more balanced feel.
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They will start putting forward a more balanced picture next Sunday.
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Since then a more balanced view has prevailed in which currents and waves are seen to act together.
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Meditative techniques were designed to eliminate this struggle, to overcome the duality and to promote a more balanced mental condition.
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It was also only at this stage that she appointed a more balanced team headed by Wakeham.
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As red wine matures, tannin softens and it becomes more balanced and drinkable.
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What plans do the Government have to introduce a more balanced development throughout the Province?
perfectly
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Its movements are harmonious, perfectly balanced and symmetrical in design.
well
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Laura Lee's article was well balanced and gave sound advice on a variety of ways forward.
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Extremely well balanced and fast off-shore.
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Try to achieve a well balanced follow-through position as it's a good indication that you are in control of your swing.
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The range cleverly combines a diversity of abstract design styles from classical to modern in a well balanced selection.
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This is a well balanced rucksack, with good carrying capacity for long trips, at an affordable price.
■ NOUN
budget
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Stenholm's proposed amendment required the President to submit a balanced budget to Congress each year.
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Reversing his previous stance, he backed a balanced budget .
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Government adhered to the prevailing orthodoxy that balanced budgets were necessary and desirable and that deficit financing was neither.
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In other words, in this model, the balanced budget multiplier is equal to 1.
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Such anticipated outcomes were a far cry from the Conservative government's long term objective of a balanced budget .
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On Dec. 28, 1989, the Council of Ministers approved a balanced budget for 1990.
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Up to the Second World War it was normal for governments to run a balanced budget .
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It remains our policy to move back to a balanced budget as speedily as possible.
curriculum
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It is difficult, too, to see how such an approach could be happily integrated into a balanced curriculum .
development
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Therefore in the pursuit of such a union, Community Regional Policy must be effective in promoting balanced development .
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What plans do the Government have to introduce a more balanced development throughout the Province?
diet
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Making sure of a balanced diet means, essentially, eating a selection of different foods, with no one type predominating.
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So, how do you make this change and ensure a balanced diet ?
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It is sensible to give the carp a balanced diet for we want the carp to do well on our baits.
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Doctors and other experts also recognise how important a balanced diet is for a child's normal development.
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The preparation of food can limit a balanced diet .
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And very few people eat a healthy, balanced diet .
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A balanced diet will give nutritional requirements in all the right proportions.
growth
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This medium should provide the ideal base for complete and balanced growth .
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The model is in fact that set out in Section 8-3 when examining balanced growth incidence.
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A substantial part of the literature has been concerned with the properties of steady-state or balanced growth .
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Business needs sustained and balanced growth , stable exchange rates, steady and competitive interest rates and low inflation.
tree
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McDonnell and Montgomery have shown that this technique is as good as the other balanced tree method for direct retrieval.
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In comparison, the time required to make random insertions to direct-linked balanced tree files did not change with overflow percentage.
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A volatile file with relatively little processing might be better handled by a balanced tree index.
view
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It is difficult, looking back, to form a balanced view of the condition of all these working people.
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What I am advocating is balanced view of your own work and a more sensible approach to its shortcomings.
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Perhaps one final vignette can move us closer to a balanced view of the Hooligan's weaponry.
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He had, he said, got his balanced view without shaking those bloodstained hands.
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Since then a more balanced view has prevailed in which currents and waves are seen to act together.
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Hence, it is necessary to achieve a balanced view of Duck and the poets who followed him.
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Only in this way can any future generations gain a balanced view of society in our time.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Newsweek" gave a reasonably balanced report on the crisis.
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a balanced account of the events
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a balanced approach to our transportation problems
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He said he felt balanced and at peace with his choices.
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Recently historians have taken a far more balanced view of the Irish question.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As John remarks, a healthy, biologically balanced environment should require minimal maintenance and effort.
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Between the two lies balanced self-awareness.
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For a complete and balanced meal they must be fed with an equal volume of canned food and mixer.
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It gives a balanced diet, and protects against infections.
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It is difficult, looking back, to form a balanced view of the condition of all these working people.
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You should continue to lead a healthy life, such as eating a balanced diet, taking exercise and keeping warm.
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Your reference to balanced reporting is surprising, to say the least.