adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
divided equally
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The money will be divided equally among the charities.
equally suitable
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I wanted a shoe that was equally suitable for both racing and training.
equally valid
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Each of these ways of looking at things is equally valid.
equally
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All people should be treated equally, whatever their age.
evenly/equally matched
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The two candidates are fairly evenly matched.
more/most/less/equally importantly
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Most importantly, you must keep a record of everything you do.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
applicable
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Whatever the answers to the previous questions, are they equally applicable to every level of linguistic analysis?
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Again, a Rule 72 Transfer is equally applicable as between a leasehold or freehold property.
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Ralph Gibson L.J.'s observations seem equally applicable to libel.
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It is an interpretation found equally applicable to developing capitalist states where indigenous bourgeoisies are yet to develop fully.
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These observations are in my view equally applicable to the revenue and to sums by way of principal or interest retained by them.
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These are useful lessons which should be equally applicable to future attempts at securing organisational improvements through computerisation.
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The principles are equally applicable in many other therapeutic situations, not just those involving patients who have taken overdoses.
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This concept may be equally applicable in other sectors, such as services and information-ultimately producing more leisure time.
clear
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What is equally clear among business men is that they have no enthusiasm whatever for a Labour Government.
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But it is equally clear that the world around us is changing.
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The military lessons were equally clear .
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The compromise with tonality is equally clear in Berg.
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What is equally clear is that the developer would not be Parkdale Archerfield as suggested in your report.
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However, it seems equally clear that the defence will frequently be able to raise the issue of consent.
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This political rhetoric would lead one to suppose that the subsequent proposals would be of an equally clear political substance.
effective
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In our second study we sought to confirm our findings that group and individual cognitive therapy were equally effective .
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Oral communication is equally effective for the receiver, who can instantly clarify what something means.
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Frequently staff will resist the change in ways which may be less dramatic than sabotage, but be equally effective .
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Both are equally effective and achieve cures about 80 percent of the time.
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Passages based on chords or arpeggios are equally effective on the harp.
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Again we found both modes equally effective .
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My hideous tableau vivant, however, will function as an equally effective go-away.
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At best a needlessly expensive chemical is used where a cheaper, equally effective detergent, would suffice.
good
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A second equally good story describes mopping up an oil spill at sea.
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The pollack was equally good-crisp and crunchy on the outside, meaty and moist within.
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The questions arise: Does the same experiment provide equally good backing for any other theory?
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It looks equally good on a flowery china tea cup or embroidered on a pretty, decorative pillow.
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Now I thought it was an equally good answer to what was the best kind of life.
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For the worker, it made equally good sense to limit output and thereby ward off a rate cut.
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Luckily there are equally good routes on the walls to the side.
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When required to run a maze, male and female pine voles prove equally good at the task.
important
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It was equally important to a world economy that information could move as freely as commodities.
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Like many other people, I appreciate clean rivers and unspoiled forest lands; but all things are not equally important .
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Many think that to prevent the demolition of useful residential buildings, theatres and cinemas is equally important .
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A second and equally important impact of the time factor in making oil-backout investments is inflationary rises in capital costs.
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The unexpected failure may be an equally important innovation opportunity source.
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But equally important , learning about rabbits taught Miles, Evan, arid me more about people.
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For example, in professional education, professional competence is equally important , if not more so.
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Mornings and evenings are equally important .
likely
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The former were usually lively and interesting; the latter, almost equally likely to be very dull indeed.
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The shapes were 6.3° tall and on average 2.2° wide, and were equally likely to be red or green.
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These four ways are equally likely to happen so the expected ratio of black-eyed and pearl-eyed beetles is 3 to 1.
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Once separated from the jaws they appear equally likely to be digested, so that there is approximate equivalence between the samples.
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Control subjects receive training in which the light is equally likely after the tone and the clicker.
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Are all drivers equally likely to experience them?
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However, it is equally likely for Dwarf troops to wear clothes or uniforms they have devised themselves.
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Each of these realizations is equally likely .
strong
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The above requirement for diversity can be matched by an equally strong requirement for centralization.
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However, I have an equally strong conviction that a balanced-budget amendment is a threat to Social Security and our economic health.
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The result resembles a cyclist pedalling strongly into an equally strong headwind-and wobbling dangerously as almost imperceptible progress is made.
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Although work is an unquestionably powerful source of male identity and satisfaction, family is equally strong .
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Indeed, there exists an equally strong , and in this context often contradictory, philosophical premiss, that of paternalism.
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Tsur believes he is part of a silent but equally strong current of Golan residents willing to sacrifice for peace.
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Are they equally strong in everyone?
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Northern church leaders used equally strong language about their southern counterparts.
true
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It is equally true that they are not as suitable for a truly mixed sequential-direct application as indexed sequential files.
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This is equally true of governments.
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It is equally true , however, that other of its elements are important means to the attainment of these riches.
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It holds equally true that a compassionate act needs to be spurred by a feeling of compassion to be effective.
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This is equally true for the Press.
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It is true that there are two solo players and equally true that Mackey matches them to a 15-member chamber orchestra.
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Don't let Ryan destroy you, Leo had said, and now it was equally true of himself.
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These two episodes made the man, yet it is equally true that the man made the episodes.
valid
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Thus, in nearly all its occurrences, either use of the adjective criminal would be equally valid .
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There are other, equally valid , ways into this symphony.
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Whatever method you adopt, the following principles are equally valid and need to be taken into account. 1.
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Your clocks are equally valid only if you each continue to occupy an inertial reference frame.
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A second and equally valid argument is that the publishing world is an invaluable source of knowledge.
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A reading that cancels out the contradictory and equally valid meanings the text yields does not do justice to its complexity.
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It is equally valid to use, for example, 20°C, 30°C and 40°C or 20°C, 35°C and 50°C.
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Each is equally valid and must be dealt with in its own terms.
■ VERB
apply
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Both theories apply equally to issues of law and fact.
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These dimensions apply equally to employees of new fishnet organizations and to team members working outside traditionally defined business spaces.
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But in later life these difficulties apply equally strongly to both men and women.
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Whether these characterizations apply equally well in all situations for all philosophical traditions is a question that I leave open.
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All of the above considerations apply equally to this situation.
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Unlike biological theories, socialization accounts apply equally to women and men.
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Many of the above difficulties apply equally to the retirement of a shareholding director.
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The undertaking is applied equally to the House of Lords.
distribute
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As might be expected from the study of mortality data acute health problems are not equally distributed throughout the population.
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You do this by equally distributing power to every person; thus no one has any more authority than anyone else.
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With, if only 60 percent of total current income were equally distributed it would be socially valued as equivalent.
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However, they are not equally distributed in the various pay grades.
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Authority and prestige are not equally distributed .
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These women were equally distributed during follow-up and were censored at the time of the last visit.
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Choice is a resource itself which is not equally distributed throughout society.
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Smoking Smoking, of either cigarettes, pipes or cigars, is not equally distributed throughout the population.
divide
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Fianna Fáil appeared to be equally divided on the issue.
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Top with croissant cubes, dividing equally .
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The residue of the estate was divided equally among all Mr Farrington's first cousins living at his death.
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It essentially mediated between the sharply contrasting views of the other eight justices, who divided equally on the issue of quotas.
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If twins are borne, both with a disability, then the sum insured will be divided equally between them.
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Pour custard over chocolate and croissants, dividing equally .
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Fees and expenses would be divided equally between them.
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Yet scarce athletic moneys must be equally divided between male and female teams.
prove
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A warm angel hair pasta tossed with fresh bay scallops proved equally delicious.
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For ministers to ignore Parliament completely would prove equally untenable.
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When required to run a maze, male and female pine voles prove equally good at the task.
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Yet homegrown gangs may prove equally troublesome.
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Baserunning proved equally as challenging in the first game.
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Still thirty, he projects a seemingly more probable life, but one which proves equally to be a not-life.
seem
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Ralph Gibson L.J.'s observations seem equally applicable to libel.
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We both seemed equally startled to see each other.
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Its social character seems equally so, at least in the talk of our participants.
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To make matters worse, the conduct of the Union generals in the lines to the west seemed equally unpromising.
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Sometimes sharply contrasting hypotheses can seem equally plausible.
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Other attempts to restrict preferences of voters seem equally to have had limited success.
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Within a theory of irony, a theory of parody seems equally essential for understanding recent generic mutations.
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Things seem equally booming away from the bright lights.
share
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Unfortunately, these improvements have not been shared equally and health inequalities within and among countries are entrenched.
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After the syndicate earned back the $ 25, 000, the brothers and the syndicate would share equally in the proceeds.
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Second, the health improvements have not been shared equally and health inequalities among and within countries remain entrenched.
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Problems arise from the fact that the fear of failing is not equally shared .
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Some decisions are shared equally and the remainder are split between husband and wife.
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There is the issue of whether a household's resources really are shared equally between husbands and wives.
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Again, this is a feeling shared equally by men and women.
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A local public good is to be provided in each locality and the cost is to be shared equally by residents.
treat
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In theory, fathers and mothers are treated equally .
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Did they expect to be treated equally and considerately by the police?
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It would not mean that animals should be treated equally with people, they do not have the same interests as people.
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Their one goal was to ensure that they be treated equally .
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Perhaps this doesn't sound overly problematic; surely, intuitively, all people should be treated equally whatever their age.
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Safeguards should be available to protect individual investors and ensure that all parties to a takeover are treated equally .
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Domestic and foreign investment would be treated equally .
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We believe mothers should be treated equally by government, whether they work outside the home or not.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Both schools seem equally good.
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Chantal Johnson was brought up in Canada, and is equally fluent in French and English.
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Club bosses and doormen are equally concerned about the situation.
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Danny has great skill as a football player, and, equally important, the determination that you need to succeed.
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He treats all the customers equally .
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Many business people do not know what sexual harassment is. Equally important, they do not know how to prevent it.
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The candidates are equally qualified for the job.
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The meat can then be baked, grilled, or sautéed with equally good results.
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We'll divide the work equally .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Antitrust laws should be made to apply equally to all.
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Even when the correct word was given a high probability, there were many other words with an equally high probability.
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His new book, Naked, is equally witty but much sadder.
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Now doing it outside the parameters of 90 minutes on a Saturday afternoon is equally and probably more important.
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Of these, sales and results are divided almost equally between industrial and consumer packaging divisions.
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The military lessons were equally clear.
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Yet homegrown gangs may prove equally troublesome.
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Your income will be added together and any benefit entitlement will be split equally between you.