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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
clearly
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Both the material to be covered in tests as well as the criteria used in evaluating student performance are clearly communicated in writing.
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They must be able to clearly communicate the results of their work, orally and in writing, to clients and management.
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The moral is that the need to clearly communicate findings must always take precedence over considerations of technical adequacy.
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General managers and top executives also must be able to communicate clearly and persuasively with customers, subordinate managers, and others.
directly
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Those nearest to such a person will have established some way of communicating directly .
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In doing this, he communicated directly with a supernatural dimension, either external or one that he sensed within himself.
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Countries that seem unable or unwilling to communicate directly with each other can do so indirectly by providing information to the media.
effectively
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The potential of graphs to communicate effectively is consequently being undermined.
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The ability to communicate effectively , both orally and in writing, is also important.
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Teaching is the ability to communicate effectively to the student or pupil, enabling learning to take place.
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Emerson concedes that the new Clinton administration sometimes failed to communicate effectively .
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For their part, employees must communicate effectively what they want and need.
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Economic survival of the enterprise or its further progress depends on managers communicating effectively with employees.
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It is little wonder that these two camps have rarely communicated effectively with each other in the past.
■ NOUN
ability
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It has lost none of its imaginative power or ability to communicate ideas.
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Their ability to communicate unfolds in a sequence of stages, starting between about six months and eighteen months of age.
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They are merely one method of making possible the ability to communicate out of which a community can grow.
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The ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, is also important.
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For advocacy, obviously, the prime need is the ability to communicate by speech.
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The ability to communicate with the outside world proved to be the key to other, vital sponsorship.
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Teaching is the ability to communicate effectively to the student or pupil, enabling learning to take place.
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Earlier we noted that the ability to communicate could be considered a prerequisite for leadership.
audience
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You need to communicate to vast audiences .
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Many composers now crave the chance to write operas, but will they acknowledge the duty to communicate with the audience ?
decision
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We have yet to learn how to communicate and make decisions in an electronic environment.
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Those leaders then communicate the decision as broadly as possible, hoping to build awareness and buy-in.
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The document communicating the decision advises the claimant of the right of appeal.
difficulty
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Without the models, the engineers had difficulty communicating at all.
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Without flexible models they have difficulty communicating , particularly with those not trained to work with the models.
employee
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Many had already been tried, but had clearly not been communicated to employees .
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Every organization routinely communicates with its employees about a variety of topics.
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Economic survival of the enterprise or its further progress depends on managers communicating effectively with employees .
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News of a proposed relocation should not only be communicated to employees but should also be given to suppliers and customers.
failure
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Poor communications Lack of understanding often arises through failure to communicate accurately and fully describe the state of the process.
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The virtue of financial transaction was its power to rocket above other failures to communicate .
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I suppose what we have here is a failure to communicate .
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Together, they have produced a massive failure to communicate .
idea
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It has lost none of its imaginative power or ability to communicate ideas .
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What idea does burning a flag communicate ?
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Advertising must be designed to communicate certain ideas to certain types of people.
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Symbolism is a primitive but effective way of communicating ideas .
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It does not matter if it communicates totally different ideas to other types of people.
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And he says he has acquired some skill in communicating technical ideas that he uses in presentations for Lucas.
information
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The nurse should therefore attempt to communicate only the information necessary for the patient to manage say, the next 24 hours.
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Sports monkeys generally get about a 120-second window in a newscast to communicate information .
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During the given period of time, exposure to the decisions of others communicates some of the information these decision-makers originally lacked.
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Knowledge of circumstances is communicated partly by information exchange across man-machine interfaces but also by verbal exchanges between people.
language
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This includes giving instructions to the language helper and when communicating with any fellow students.
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Charles's body language was geared to communicating to street toughs.
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Thus, they invented their own language and communicated with other robots.
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Indeed it would be difficult to imagine how children were able to use language to communicate if no such conception were present.
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The idea here is that people working in groups can cooperate more efficiently if they can use a vocal language to communicate .
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They developed no spoken language and communicated solely by gestures.
means
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As computers become increasingly available to non-typists more natural means of communicating with them are sought. 1.2.1.1.
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For the Tuvans, traditionally, music has served as a means to communicate with the spirits.
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I would be interested to hear from anyone who has developed other means of communicating with people with learning difficulties.
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An accounting system is a formal means of gathering and communicating financial data.
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Your clothes are a means of communicating with other people.
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For Schroder-Sonnenstern, who lived in psychiatric institutions from 1919 onwards, drawing was a means of communicating with the world.
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Use of tapes Videotapes of school activities are a useful means of communicating about work undertaken at school.
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It is the main form of internal business correspondence and the means used to communicate the majority of written messages.
message
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They also recommended drama as a powerful way of communicating appropriate messages .
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They learned to communicate a simple message with passion and enthusiasm.
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A different approach to video materials is to look at how they communicate their message .
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Like the popular JungleWorld exhibit, the forest will communicate a message of conservation and education.
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It is the main medium on which the government relies to communicate its message to the public, especially to rural communities.
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Simply by carrying out its day-to-day operations, an organisation necessarily communicates certain messages to those who interact with it.
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The court found the idea of Mr Warner unconsciously communicating coded messages to Samuel's fellow criminals quite ridiculous.
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They communicated with him via messages on his computer screen.
need
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Because, although Vladimir's environment is different, his essential business need to communicate isn't.
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Meanwhile the need to communicate , or at least coordinate, is accelerating.
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In this modern environment, there is no need to communicate with anybody.
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So is the need to communicate quickly in a society increasingly addicted to sound bites.
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They remain torn between the wish to forget their war experiences and the need to communicate them to others.
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The moral is that the need to clearly communicate findings must always take precedence over considerations of technical adequacy.
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It shows how in reality there is a need to communicate horizontally as well as vertically.
other
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These are multi-user domains, and may use any kind of media for people to communicate with each other .
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The aliens communicate telepathically with each other .
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We always communicate with each other and talk to each other.
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It is little wonder that these two camps have rarely communicated effectively with each other in the past.
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Countries that seem unable or unwilling to communicate directly with each other can do so indirectly by providing information to the media.
others
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They remain torn between the wish to forget their war experiences and the need to communicate them to others .
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For organizations to learn, they must remember and communicate lessons to others .
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This secondary elaboration of the original dream will use poetic language and ritual performance to communicate to others the original dream.
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There is no intention of communicating with others .
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Impatient with committee work, he was at his best when exploring new paths and communicating his enthusiasms to others .
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On the surface, attitude is the way you communicate your mood to others .
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Most user education programmes have so far been very much of a local nature with little attempt to communicate experience to others .
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There are economies of scale to be made and you may want to communicate with others .
people
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The therapeutic encounter is one in which two people communicate with one another, using a language.
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The technical definition of multimedia is the use of Multimedia mimics the natural way people communicate .
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Some people communicate easily; some don't.
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Baker knows people and how to communicate with them.
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It allows relatively inexpert people to communicate the gravity of the problem to others so teamwork can be handled sensibly.
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How do people communicate across space without words?
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But the inspiring resilience of older gay people is rarely communicated to gay youth.
person
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In this way, the infant is not only learning to communicate with another person , but also to communicate about something.
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Because defamation law is concerned with reputation, a statement can be defamatory only if it is communicated to a third person .
user
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This allows users to communicate in various ways with others on participating network systems.
way
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Summary Alternate ways of communicating with computers are required which do not require a keyboard.
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He suggests that the types of behavior or attitudes people manifest affect the way they communicate .
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The only way we could communicate was between ourselves when our teachers were out of earshot.
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The technical definition of multimedia is the use of Multimedia mimics the natural way people communicate .
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It was the way she communicated with him.
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For some companies, offering educational programs is one way to begin communicating that family friendly means father friendly.
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The marriage ended when her husband gave up the struggle to find better ways of communicating with her.
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Symbolism is a primitive but effective way of communicating ideas.
ways
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Summary Alternate ways of communicating with computers are required which do not require a keyboard.
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Everyone has his or her own style, personality, and ways of communicating .
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The marriage ended when her husband gave up the struggle to find better ways of communicating with her.
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This simple observation surprised us and made us change our ways of communicating with social workers.
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He just simply moved his body in ways that communicated more effectively than words.
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There were more goods to buy, more people with enough money to buy them and easier ways to communicate with them.
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One of the most powerful, though imprecise, ways in which music communicates is by its setting and sustaining a mood.
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Most partnerships involve tentative negotiations until they find ways of communicating that suit each of their needs.
word
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He just simply moved his body in ways that communicated more effectively than words .
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As food gatherers and child minders, women would have communicated with words .
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How do people communicate across space without words ?
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Children become aware of this and tend to communicate in only those words that the computer understands.
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Rather, it is the vision articulated, the vision represented and communicated , in words and in actions.
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Man communicates by word of mouth and by body language.
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They seem able to communicate with each other without words and are extremely sensitive to atmosphere.
world
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The ability to communicate with the outside world proved to be the key to other, vital sponsorship.
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The cuddly robot may be a major route through which we communicate with the world of information.
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Before phones, people had to be literate in order to communicate with the outside world through letters.
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For Schroder-Sonnenstern, who lived in psychiatric institutions from 1919 onwards, drawing was a means of communicating with the world .
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They just would not communicate with the outside world for several days at a time.
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She felt a momentary triumph and something approaching relief, as if Amy had at last consented to communicate with the world .
■ VERB
allow
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This system allows me to communicate much better than I could before.
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The various standard protocols allow all clients to communicate with all servers.
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We had this feeling that we were not allowed to communicate with people.
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This allows users to communicate in various ways with others on participating network systems.
enable
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Workers will need a level of writing skill that will enable them to communicate quickly and effectively.
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I also believed that these experiences enabled me to communicate with many different kinds of people, from many different backgrounds.
fail
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Does this mean that the message hasn't got across, that Jane Austen has somehow failed to communicate ?
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Emerson concedes that the new Clinton administration sometimes failed to communicate effectively.
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Schoenberg's own fear was that his new idioms might fail to communicate .
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As he watched them leave Converse felt that he had failed to communicate indifference.
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Frequently some one knows about a hazard, but fails to communicate with those who need to know.
help
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Sisask ` considers the mass to be a great mystery helping human beings to communicate with the higher invisible reality.
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Bell invented the telephone to help humans communicate .
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It should help us to communicate and spread experience, feelings, understandings and ideas and thus facilitate action.
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They want to use a customised version to help their overseas operatives communicate home and browse without blowing their cover.
learn
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It is a language that needs to be learned to communicate fully in the years to come.
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In the past several years, many leaders have learned to communicate the what and why parts of vision.
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We have to learn to communicate and that means conquering our fear of that process.
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They had eaten lunch together and told jokes together and slowly learned how to communicate with one another.
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This is an important goal in learning to communicate in a foreign language.
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The Bridge School helps children with severe physical and speech impairments learn to communicate .
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We have yet to learn how to communicate and make decisions in an electronic environment.
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Cindy seemed in some ways proud of the way she had learned to communicate with Robbie but was also anxious about it.
try
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Horses do try to communicate with us, and they expect us to understand.
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The day before he died he tried desperately to communicate something to me.
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It will be because Eeyore isn't even trying to communicate .
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I've been trying to communicate with - with whatever it is that's up there.
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He must try to communicate that to the children who were filled with evident self-recrimination, Katherine particularly.
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They tried to communicate and got on very well, despite the language difficulties.
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And I don't just mean the belief that you're trying to communicate .
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Misjudgements and mismatches of schemata are particularly likely when people try to communicate across cultures and across languages.
use
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Indeed it would be difficult to imagine how children were able to use language to communicate if no such conception were present.
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Satellite communications have recently expanded the capacity of governments to use the media to communicate with other governments.
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It is the main form of internal business correspondence and the means used to communicate the majority of written messages.
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Generally, most ISPs will provide you with all the necessary facilities to use the Internet and communicate by e-mail.
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One major multinational even uses this method to communicate details of its financial results.
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Patois was a success for the group in so far as they used it succinctly to communicate rejection of authority.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Andrea smiled at Jamie, communicating her affection for him with her eyes.
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Doctors are doing research into how the virus is communicated.
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Jack and I just aren't communicating anymore.
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Many parents find it difficult to communicate with their teenage sons or daughters.
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Now that we live in different cities, we communicate by e-mail.
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She's clever, but she can't communicate her ideas.
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She tried to communicate her fears to her mother.
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The course is designed to enable people to communicate effectively in speech and writing.
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They couldn't communicate in writing, because William was illiterate.
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You can communicate your mood to your baby without realising it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ali was never allowed out, but managed to communicate with his brothers by shouting.
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Does Raymond communicate with Della Guardia first, or does he go downstairs to address the faithful?
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During this time you will have developed the personal credibility to communicate persuasively at top management level.
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Improper behavior by individual political actors or by government agencies is exposed and widely communicated by investigative reporters.
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In this modern environment, there is no need to communicate with anybody.
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The day before he died he tried desperately to communicate something to me.
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The most important thing is to communicate with your partner at the back.
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These instruments are key to communicating train delays and platform changes.