adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a curious/remarkable fact
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It is a remarkable fact that elephants do not use their trunks to suck up water until they are over four months old.
a strange/curious coincidence
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What a strange coincidence that you were both living in Bangkok at the same time.
curious stares
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They ignored the curious stares directed at them.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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I must confess I was as curious as they were so I kept an eye on the cottage to see who came.
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And the ear is just as curious .
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Teachers say Down's children are just as curious and interested as other children.
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As he got up to speak, she said, she was as curious as anyone else about what would pour out.
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The people were better dressed, but just as curious .
how
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Le Pen's outburst illustrates just how curious is this retention of antisemitism.
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I believe there are no red-headed Civil Servants. How curious .
just
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I began to feel ashamed of my nosiness but I hadn't intended to be nosey: I was just curious .
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The Educorp catalogue also lists some more contemplative, or just curious , examples, including the Bogie Stack.
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He says he's just curious .
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I was standing at the back of the tent, just curious .
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Some were just curious , and would pretend to have lost their way and hope to be invited to spend a night.
more
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And even more curious - they don't usually dispense £20 notes.
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The black one continued to look Glover over, but he was relaxed, more curious than anything.
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Now she was even more curious about his tastes, his means, his life alone.
most
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It was one of the most curious things I had ever seen.
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Of course, the most curious of all former Salomon Brothers mortgage traders is Howie Rubin.
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This Dickens was a most curious man.
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The most curious finding, according to Shmeltzer, was that the labels in the suspects' clothes had been torn out.
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A sweet tooth One of the most curious symptoms of candidiasis is a craving for sugary foods or for foods containing yeast.
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Outwardly, the most curious aspect of Neon Prophet is that none of them are Rastafarian.
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Something else which is expected of him; the most curious manifestation of noblesseoblige.
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This is most curious , considering that in the same column he seems to directly contradict this very point.
rather
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A rather curious look from Prince Philip wondering, no doubt, how this lowly two-ringer got into the act.
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We have Sigmund Freud to thank for a rather curious state of affairs.
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The emphasis on pace bowling meant that he found himself in a rather curious position.
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This seems a rather curious reading.
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This is a rather curious argument about sign language.
so
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So you start out from some curious notion you have hit on, or even not so curious.
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The story behind the rumour is so curious , however, that it is worth telling none the less.
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I can not say why I suddenly became so curious about him.
very
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But then my eye caught a pair of heavy wool embroidered curtains drawn across an angled alcove. Very curious .
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Normally, these are very curious animals.
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At least the wines tasted very curious to my inexpert palate.
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Yes, says Black, settling in comfortably to the languor of the moment, a number of very curious stories.
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I was very curious about the other contents of the suitcase which was now lying on the floor near me.
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Biting a tree and then running away seemed like a very curious and wasteful behavior.
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When she saw it was Nick Frazer something very curious happened.
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Now she did a very curious thing: she explored all the subterranean passages connecting the Columbia buildings.
■ NOUN
coincidence
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Was it relevant to his enquiry, or just a curious coincidence ?
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By curious coincidence , the suitable candidates are somehow always chaps.
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Lagutin was the subject of a curious coincidence the following day.
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It was just a curious coincidence that Hatton had been killed on the day following that of Mrs Fanshawe's regaining consciousness.
fact
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It is a curious fact that the Nizan Case was ultimately dominated more by fiction than by fact.
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A curious fact which might seem at first to constitute an exception to this explanation turns out to provide further confirmation of it.
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Nor does Hinkes tell us another curious fact .
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The curious facts of Ipswich v Fisons were being relied on to support the distinction.
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It is also a curious fact that the older the remains of industry are the better they are regarded.
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This probably does not take most people by surprise-yet it is a curious fact .
glance
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I wonder if they will ask me to go, but apart from a few curious glances , quickly snuffed, they ignore me.
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Robyn could tell the minute she met their curious glances .
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In running the same course of action is likely to do little more than raise a few curious glances from fellow competitors.
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Even with Owen, she attracted some curious glances from people at adjoining tables.
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Once outside, she stood uncertainly for a moment, oblivious to the curious glances of passers-by.
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Even the wallabies, for whom bouncing around is a way of life, cast a curious glance .
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He held the door open and she passed through, followed by many curious glances .
look
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A rather curious look from Prince Philip wondering, no doubt, how this lowly two-ringer got into the act.
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Some of the men gave him curious looks because of the blood that had sheeted his right side.
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The driver gave her a curious look then.
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I go back past Security and get a slightly curious look myself.
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In the evenings, she ate alone and loved it: she felt curious looks coming her way.
mixture
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He felt a curious mixture of elation and unease.
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What has always separated them from other rock-and-roll bands is a curious mixture of maturity and immaturity.
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Her plate held a curious mixture of Spam, jelly, iced buns and lettuce leaves.
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The band's room is filled with a curious mixture of people, waiting for something to happen.
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The mill still stands and is a curious mixture of brick, elm, slate and corrugated iron.
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It was a curious mixture of staid respectability with overtones of holiday fun.
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Nizan's political stance at this juncture was a curious mixture of uncompromising denunciation and sweet-talking collaboration.
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Naturally the city figures large in this adventure, but one drawn from a curious mixture of references.
sensation
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Once again Sabine had the curious sensation that time had stopped and run back.
thing
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It was one of the most curious things I had ever seen.
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When George came back he did a curious thing .
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But the curious thing was that the idea had somehow and much against his will taken root in his consciousness.
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Such a curious thing for an established and respected elderly gentleman to do, now that she came to consider it seriously.
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A curious thing has happened here.
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The curious thing is why a university made Mr Jeffries head of an academic department in the first place.
way
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The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted.
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And the true Jets' fans have curious ways of showing their affection.
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In a curious way he would miss Tibbles.
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Strangers have a curious way of coming through for other strangers.
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They have a curious way of sitting on the back seat, unfamiliar with the correct posture.
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Metaphors have a curious way of living beyond the point at which the evidence from which they grew has been discarded.
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She had found an explanation of events which satisfied her, an explanation which in a curious way brought her contentment.
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Darwin's theory was presented in the Origin in a curious way .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Why do you want to know about Catherine?" "Oh no reason. I'm just curious ."
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A few curious neighbors came out to see what was going on.
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Being naturally curious animals, cats often find their way into dangerous places.
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Even young children often become curious about drugs.
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He had come to some curious arrangement with his landlady.
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He was curious to find out why she had left her job so suddenly.
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I'm not being nosy, I'm just curious .
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It was a weird situation, and I was curious to learn more.
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Life in the village was a curious combination of the old and the very new.
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People have always been curious about exactly how life on earth began.
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The principal's response to the problem was curious .
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The visitors were soon surrounded by a crowd of curious children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first Wexford felt a curious distaste and then he thought about the dead man and what he knew of him.
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But even I am a little bit curious as to what the top news stories are.
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It is curious , by the way, that the gridiron plan should have gone on so long.
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She looked through the drawers of Bob's desk, curious to explore even the most unconsidered corners of his life.
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String theory has a curious history.
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The result is a curious hybrid that values action and physical movement above all else.
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They had once been white, he remembered, but now they had turned a curious shade of yellow.
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Upon learning of this daily miracle, a curious neighbor gave the fish a whack.