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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
growing
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It seemed certain to boost his reputation as a survivor and to stifle growing discontent with his autocratic leadership.
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Perhaps she sensed my growing discontent and was frightened of appearing to gloat.
popular
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They focused popular discontent over the double-standard and the complicity of aristocratic men in child prostitution.
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He also became adept at exploiting a variety of popular discontents .
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A great upsurge of popular discontent and nationalism led to the formation of a government headed by Mohammad Mussadeq.
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Outbreaks of popular discontent became more frequent, but were no more effective than the great strike of 1977.
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This also produced popular discontent directed against the bishops.
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Often, conservative ex-communists, impatient radicals or politicians seeking to capitalize on popular discontent can give presidents a hard ride.
public
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Despite similar appeals by government officials, public discontent remained at a high level, and most workers continued their strike.
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Fear, indeed, appears to be growing that extremists may well try to exploit public discontent .
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The military leader was returned to the post he first held from 1979 until 1991, when public discontent forced him out.
social
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Mendel points out that this helped pave the way for economic crises that aggravated social discontent before 1905.
widespread
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But in spite of a pretty widespread discontent with education as it is, there is no clear view of what it should be.
■ VERB
grow
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The human suffering makes it harder to justify the embargo and creates growing discontent in the region.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His discontent is no small matter.
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If they are correct, welfare costs and political discontent could escalate.
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It would seem that one source of industrial discontent in the modern world is the structure and content of work itself.
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Over the next two years the protest movement, a mixture of genuine discontent , sincere concern and self-indulgence, petered out.
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The discontent of the monarchists and Falangists was as nothing by comparison with the rage felt by the regime's left-wing opponents.
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The consequence is to be seen in a rise of mass discontent in the main industrial countries.
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The human suffering makes it harder to justify the embargo and creates growing discontent in the region.
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They focused popular discontent over the double-standard and the complicity of aristocratic men in child prostitution.