noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sorry episode (= bad thing that happened )
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This whole sorry episode shows just how incompetent the government has become.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
acute
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The study's design provided the opportunity to examine the predictors of long-term survival after an acute episode of pneumonia.
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When the patient is over the acute episode and begins recovery the insulin requirement usually decreases.
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Two sets of findings in particular suggest preventive strategies that could considerably reduce the prevalence of acute psychotic episodes .
brief
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This was a brief episode of climatic amelioration after the last glaciation.
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Likewise, during the frigid eras of ice sheet advances, numerous brief episodes of extreme warming occurred.
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However, save for that brief and embarrassing episode , the day had continued to be one of great enjoyment.
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This option, at least, allows for a brief semi-humorous episode .
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Therefore, the line seeks direction and magnitude at each brief episode of the journey.
entire
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But the entire episode left the party looking damaged and fragile.
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Others will be completely amnesic for the entire episode and not even aware that a seizure has occurred.
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As is invariably the case in such matters, the only people to profit from the entire episode were the lawyers.
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For some who have seen the entire episode develop, it practically drips with an uneasy feeling.
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Jean hadn't even asked Helen what she had said; the entire episode had slipped her mind.
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And you never thought about your role in that entire episode ?
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The entire episode might have gone unnoticed had there not been a routine monitoring of the base communications tapes last week.
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Unenthusiastic about the entire Gulf episode , he is not thrilled at this unprecedented task but he must obey the Security Council.
final
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Robert Hardy says he re-arranged his schedule to make sure he could appear in the final episode of Inspector Morse.
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The final episode of the season will feature the group in a live concert.
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After this final fatal episode the eruption dragged on for many months, lasting well into 1903.
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The final 90-minute episode will be screened on Channel 4 on Sunday night.
late
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Soon, the new form will be gone, and the latest episode in the moth's evolutionary adventures will be over.
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In later episodes of thirtysomething, Hope returned to work.
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It's the latest episode in a success story for Pete, who has no formal training as a blacksmith.
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A major late north-north-west thrust episode has been identified, possibly associated with movements on the Boundary Slide in adjacent areas.
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When was the Home Secretary informed about this latest episode ?
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In the latest episode , rivers and wetlands have often been the field of battle.
little
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This little episode shows how Norman regarded the stress which accompanies any art form when it has been seriously undertaken.
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Two months later we pushed off to Paris and, except for one little episode , the journey went well.
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That unedifying but intriguing little episode must have been round the Lab within minutes of its happening.
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The army hadn't been too pleased about that little episode either.
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Firstly, this little episode exposes pre-nuptial contracts in this country to be the complete waste of paper they are.
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One presumes this little episode contributed significantly to the breakdown of the Beckers' once-strong marriage.
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Now I think we should bring down the curtain on this little episode , and go to bed.
original
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In the new book, the original camp meeting episode is published as an appendix.
particular
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Perhaps Boniface was also prejudiced by one particular episode .
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No one looked back at that particular episode in the construction of Worldwide Plaza with pleasure or pride.
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Certainly the subject, sought from within a particular conscious episode , is peculiarly recessive.
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But that for other types, the particular episodes of yesterday and today, is defective.
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Esther could not have planned that particular episode better if she had intended it.
psychotic
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Mrs T had recently been readmitted to hospital following a psychotic episode .
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Homeless patients receive medication to get well enough to return to the streets where they live until their next psychotic episode .
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However, Marsilid also had more unwanted effects than its companion drug, and some patients experienced psychotic episodes .
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Larson cites a medical journal article of 22 years ago that compares a religious experience to a psychotic episode .
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A number of factors may then precipitate a psychotic episode , including emotionally arousing events and a stressful environment.
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Most of the psychotic episodes experienced by people using Halcion involved high doses for extended periods of time.
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Two sets of findings in particular suggest preventive strategies that could considerably reduce the prevalence of acute psychotic episodes .
recurrent
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He was referred by his General Practitioner whom he had consulted after experiencing recurrent episodes of upper abdominal pain and severe indigestion.
single
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This single episode gave me a very good picture of Harold Wilson's qualities and defects.
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Indeed, no single episode combines as many combustible elements as this one.
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In every single episode you see a life saved.
sorry
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I still have the entire documentation of this sorry episode in my archive.
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Tories now fear, however, that the whole sorry episode has damaged the Prime Minister too.
whole
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He took the boy through the whole episode .
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Demand has been fairly strong throughout this whole bizarre episode ....
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I can remember vividly the whole episode with Docklands Express.
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Though the fault was hardly my own, the President seemed to associate me with the whole unfortunate episode .
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This whole episode is probably good news for the hobby.
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And he was crucial in the amazing lack of leaks in this whole episode .
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Certainly by 1100 the whole episode had fallen into almost complete oblivion.
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Later, the whole episode struck Jne as funny.
■ NOUN
reflux
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Hourly frequency and mean duration of reflux episodes in the upright and supine period were also calculated in each patient.
■ VERB
describe
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What is distinctive is the idea that consciousness can be adequately described in terms of causal episodes .
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Gradually as he described similar episodes in which he was attacked or provoked, Deborah saw two patterns emerging.
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Children will be asked to watch and then describe such simple pretend episodes .
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The person often describes previous episodes of low back pain with or without lower extremity radiation.
follow
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Mrs T had recently been readmitted to hospital following a psychotic episode .
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Her depression lifted in March 1990 and quickly was followed by an epic episode of mania.
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That is expected to be followed by six more episodes at a cost of £1.6 million each.
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Voluminous diplomatic correspondence, in a serious but ridiculous vein, followed this episode .
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Certain questions follow from this episode .
show
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An interesting example of this was shown in an episode of the science fiction series Babylon 5.
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Fastolf's methods in securing gains are shown by an episode recorded in the archives of the Parlement of Paris.
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Traffic showed that it can, with its ingestion of a multiple-storyline epic originally shown over several episodes on television.
watch
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Peter Redburn hated Pemberley and he had fed his hatred by watching every episode .
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I watched the first few episodes , but quickly lost interest.
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The storyline at the moment is very good, gripping and makes you watch the next episode .
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But for anyone who had watched the earlier episodes , this was a pointless drama of reiteration.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Brad Pitt made a guest appearance on last week's episode .
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Ernie directed all 12 of the half-hour episodes for television.
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I've never even seen an episode of Star Trek.
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Susan has had several episodes of depression lately.
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That was one of the best episodes - I wish I'd got it on tape.
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The final episode will be broadcast next week.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Hourly frequency and mean duration of reflux episodes in the upright and supine period were also calculated in each patient.
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However, this episode constitutes a reminder of its pitfalls.
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In the first episode the islanders interview prospective families.
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The basic plan provides for two classroom periods to be spent on each episode .
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This episode has seemed strange to Sinologists, and all the more interesting for that.
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This patient had experienced several episodes of palpitations although she was otherwise well.
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You can still see episodes of this at the Museum of Radio and Television.