adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a common/an everyday event
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The death of a child was a common event in those days.
a daily/everyday chore
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When you're working it can be hard to find time for the daily chores.
an everyday/commonplace experience (= one that is typical of normal life )
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The sound of gunfire is an everyday experience in the city.
everyday experience (= experience of normal life )
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Hunger is part of everyday experience for these children.
everyday/daily/day-to-day existence (= someone's normal life that is the same most days )
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He saw drugs as a way of escaping the tedium of his everyday existence.
ordinary/everyday clothes
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Everyone else was wearing ordinary clothes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
activity
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Look at how they compare with our normal everyday activities .
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To ensure that this happens, I try to make writing an everyday activity .
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They were just pleased that the movies had become a normal everyday activity .
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Thus our work assumes a kind of holiness that permeates even the most ordinary of everyday activities .
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She had her doubts: Perhaps it is true that women are kept humble by the nature of their everyday activities .
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So in this chapter you will find some pointers for looking at what you might think are everyday activities .
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A similar interest was taken by the regional and international press in the course of their everyday activities .
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Information is also needed by the patient to permit the continuance of other everyday activities .
business
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The prosaic sight of monks going about their everyday business , just when she needed them, was irresistible.
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Worse, they feel it has little relevance to everyday business decisions, where right and wrong are by no means always clear-cut.
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Publishing information as part of everyday business activity and publishing for profit are only two of the three mainstream publishing activities.
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Each man had his everyday business in which he could feel he had his niche and even at times his indispensability.
conversation
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Certainly there are several differences between the structure of these extended interviews and everyday conversation .
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They have been around for centuries and many have become key components of everyday conversation .
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Under the surface of an everyday conversation a duel of two astute minds was taking place.
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Wyatt, the names she used in everyday conversation .
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In everyday conversation , speakers usually ask questions in order to extend their knowledge.
discourse
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The contradictory demands of justifying and criticizing national prejudice can be seen in the everyday discourse of racism.
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Its triumph in everyday discourse is the demand for rational or empirical justification.
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The passage from esoteric scientific theory into everyday discourse describes the prototype of objectification.
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Client purchasers require that this be translated back into everyday discourse .
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In the first case he offered a solution in the terms of everyday discourse .
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Clients bring many issues to the solicitor, expressed and constituted in terms of a variety of everyday discourses .
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There are two definitional syntheses that have a particular currency, both in everyday discourse and among scholarly approaches.
event
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Likewise the affirmations that are created out of the everyday events can come back into it as contributions.
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It is a kind of bracketing-off from everyday events .
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They are doctored-up mirror images, innocuous illustrations of everyday events in which skill of execution utterly predominates over imagination.
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For the successful person, a winning attitude means looking to learn something in all the everyday events that you encounter.
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What was supposedly impossible, rapid large swings in currency values, became an almost everyday event .
existence
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It affects the quality of your everyday existence .
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It is a wonderful thing to spend one's everyday existence paddling in a cesspool of untapped energy.
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Drug dealing, indiscriminate violence, other crime and family disorientation and disintegration are now all aspects of everyday existence .
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The new breed of messed-up young things deal with the emotional extremities of everyday existence .
experience
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Farmers, sailors, and chemists get by perfectly well on the basis of everyday experience , without recourse to Aristotelian logic.
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To decide whether this emphasis is justified, we should translate the results into everyday experience .
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The basic idea, in short, is that the problem of individuation should be approached from the horizon of ordinary everyday experience .
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Sitting in one position to observe and record appearances does not conform to the majority of our everyday experience of landscape.
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This relationship between frequency and speed, which is called the Doppler effect, is an everyday experience .
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The laws on ritual purity hammered this home in practical everyday experience .
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They are based on observations of everyday experience and language use.
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It is these everyday experiences which help the child towards understanding.
item
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But life has become increasingly problematic as the years have progressed, because of the widespread use of microchips in everyday items .
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It adds a bold splash of colour to all kinds of snacks, and turns everyday items into original-looking and great-tasting treats.
language
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It is usual in popular journalism to write short sentences and to use clear, everyday language .
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Our everyday language reinforces the conception of the womb as a permanent space, an empty lodging waiting for a tenant.
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It is, however, a term clearly understood in everyday language .
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To foreigners, nomatterhow generously equipped with dictionaries, the everyday language of everyday people is incomprehensible.
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Unsophisticated everyday language is remarkably accurate in the way it describes the spirituality of the world.
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There are hundreds and hundreds of words that we use in everyday language to describe them.
life
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Others have developed a sort of domestic hyper-realism, seeking out the squalor of everyday life .
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For example, the constructions can be found everywhere in everyday life .
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The difficulty starts when one tries to say exactly what is the relationship between everyday life and the structure of society.
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They are put forward as the stuff of everyday life .
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These should be noted, before one views the siege as baseline myth for the interpretation of everyday life .
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Deborah described her everyday life with her sons, which seemed very hectic.
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A magically barred inner space, removed from everyday life .
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A soul released from Nature, from impressions, and from everyday life .
object
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Mach almost always creates his sculptures insitu, using everyday objects .
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In her more recent works, avalanches of everyday objects seem to fall from the sky.
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Most of them were named after mythological characters, though there were also a few everyday objects such as a Triangle and an Altar.
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Using everyday objects , basic scientific principles can be explained even to the very young.
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Orthographic projections Orthographic projections are right angled views ideally suited to the study of everyday objects .
occurrence
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Using such cash will eventually become an everyday occurrence for us all.
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These next applications deal with everyday occurrences , and neural networks are playing a part in each of them.
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What he wishes to do is to establish through everyday occurrences the realization within you of his existence.
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Demos to outsiders, if not an everyday occurrence , were not unusual.
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It was so long ago that it happened - it's an everyday occurrence now, people battering and killing children.
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It was an everyday occurrence for the gentry to bed maidservants.
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They took near-disaster as an everyday occurrence , which it probably is.
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There cancer is not feared and dreaded, but is treated in a matter-of-fact way as an everyday occurrence .
people
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Instead, they were everyday people dressed in their everyday clothes.
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It specialises in giving everyday people a glamorous look that would do the cover of any top fashion magazine proud.
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Illustrative of every-day life and everyday people .
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To foreigners, nomatterhow generously equipped with dictionaries, the everyday language of everyday people is incomprehensible.
reality
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Not so where an illusion of everyday reality is more important.
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Most of us, however, do not lead lives in which danger and adventure are everyday realities .
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Because writs, charters, and other chancery letters became everyday affairs, their language was now intended to express everyday realities .
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Our everyday reality is a grand illusion, a dream metaphor, which we are creating.
situation
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Widespread and systematic crime occurs in normal, everyday situations .
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I also began to listen and probe in informal research settings-the everyday situations that are rich with easily overlooked details.
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You may like to check just how well you listen by practising listening in some simple everyday situations .
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Although nearly all have used the metric system throughout their school careers they use Imperial measures in everyday situations .
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The video showed everyday situations which the staff could relate to, and enabled them to make very constructive comments.
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As we do so an alternative approach will be offered which seems closer to communication in everyday situations .
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Songs are set in everyday situations and many listeners appreciate the gritty realism, although others consider the earthiness intolerably shallow.
speech
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Summary statements are useful in everyday speech , where we are continually describing people as intelligent or aggressive or generous or nice.
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It was just everyday speech , he said, and terrible.
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What really disappointed was Amis' decline as one of the great modulators of everyday speech .
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In everyday speech it is a decidedly negative word.
task
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Some of the jobs around a farm or homestead were minor everyday tasks and some were huge and laborious undertakings.
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The awards are in recognition of their everyday tasks to help others or for those who have overcome personal illness or disability.
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This process of dealing with her impressions was dovetailed into her everyday tasks without the two activities interfering with each other.
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By asking about the everyday tasks of parenting the schedules obviate the need for time-consuming psychometric testing.
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The less exercise you do, the more unfit you will become, and the harder everyday tasks will seem.
things
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My granny took to her knitting, and we spoke a little of everyday things .
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So the ordinary everyday things that children did became scary in her eyes.
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We are not carrying the cross when we are poor or suffering small everyday things - these are all part of life.
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She wondered who would buy this house, moving in with their everyday things , their everyday lives.
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Doris Howell recently suffered the shock of losing her sight practically overnight and finds everyday things difficult to cope with.
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If he had been alert to everyday things he knew he would have heard it sooner.
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Take time to look at and enjoy simple everyday things , time to admire people and places.
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That's why I still cope now with all the everyday things like the ironing and housework.
use
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Reactions have varied, but it's universally agreed that the preview is way too unstable and slow for everyday use .
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But they are both just too big for everyday use .
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This is the money that banks keep in their safes or tills for everyday use .
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The bottom octave and a half of its compass is the best part of its range for everyday use .
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Keys made entirely of iron were also in everyday use .
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It's still too eggy for everyday use .
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I found the Vulcan to be a highly versatile jacket - great for hillwalking, spring skiing and everyday use .
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Both tumbler and lever locks were in everyday use quite early in the Roman period, as excavations at Pompeii have shown.
work
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Of course, with benefit of experience, this is no problem in everyday work .
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Transnational corporations have moved increasingly toward growth strategies that weave information technologies into the fabric of everyday work .
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Consultancies have been slow to invest in the available new technology for the efficient detailing of their everyday work .
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Today all sorts of everyday work happens on the computer.
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This inculcates in rural officers a notably greater intolerance of pollution in everyday work .
world
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Measurement involves an intervention by our everyday world into the quantum world.
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One day, we decided we would try to write about something from our everyday world .
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Television is already about as divorced from the real, everyday world as it could possibly be.
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The silence on the terraces outside the monastery heightens the sense of remove from the everyday world .
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This poem shows the scientist as a law unto himself, outside the everyday world , not even hot-blooded.
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Such use of the will is far different from what ordinarily passes for resolution in the everyday world .
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Chardin observed the minutiae of the everyday world .
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Our everyday world is a truly magical oracle.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Arthritis made it difficult for him to do everyday things like take out the garbage or mow the lawn.
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Noland makes sculptures out of everyday objects.
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The book is written in simple everyday language.
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The first week of the course is spent teaching students English phrases needed for everyday life.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Detachment from the everyday gives us a higher view of our lives.
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One focuses on the everyday lives of the First Peoples.
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These should be noted, before one views the siege as baseline myth for the interpretation of everyday life.
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Under the surface of an everyday conversation a duel of two astute minds was taking place.
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We've come a long way - with everyday improvements such as ... The range of goods in the shops.