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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
evolve a strategy
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The creatures which live in the river have evolved strategies for surviving sudden floods.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
constantly
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They are, in short, a fusion of ideology and aesthetics in a constantly evolving revolutionary synthesis.
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The shape of the Lombard Scheme is constantly evolving , and a working party on its future development will report in 1993.
gradually
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This situation has only evolved gradually .
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Thus the constitution can evolve gradually .
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For about two years, this ability has been gradually evolving from sensorimotor behaviors.
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The custom gradually evolved , so that only a token or emblem of life came to be needed.
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According to another speculation, vocal language gradually evolved from spontaneous cries of pain, pleasure, or other emotions.
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The helm evolved gradually from the conical Norman helmet, ear flaps being added.
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It starts as a dull ache that gradually evolves into a severe throbbing pain, centering in the frontal and temporal regions.
over
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Many treatments have evolved over the last 30 years for controlling upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage in patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension.
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Many neural network paradigms have evolved over the past decade.
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Challenge the routines that have evolved over the years.
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They have evolved over millions of years to occupy their own niche, under the forest's protection.
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Your own, personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time.
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Group norms Work groups differ from free-forming groups outside employment in that they evolve over long periods of time.
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It all sounds a bit complicated and slightly confusing, but the system has evolved over many years and it works.
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In short, it would seem that the relationship must have evolved over and over again.
rapidly
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They evolved rapidly and spread widely, and have a range of distinctive characters to help the investigator in his identifications.
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The gravitational fields of these irregular chunks are so lumpy that any orbit is certain to evolve rapidly .
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Thereafter it evolved rapidly into a formidable force.
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The company dealt with uncertainty through a flexible organizational style, aided by a rapidly evolving information network.
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It is also evolving rapidly to meet modern requirements.
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The trilobites evolved rapidly , and can therefore be used extensively in the dating of rocks at this time.
slowly
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The loss of orbital energy by the satellite causes it to evolve slowly inward into a closer, shorter-period orbit.
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Thus, outbreaks of urban yellow fever evolve slowly .
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Existing values and social organization have evolved slowly and have survived the test of time.
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The policy instruments which have been used to try to achieve this equitable goal have evolved slowly .
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Biological, social, or economic systems enter periods of punctuated equilibrium with slowly evolving but firmly established structures.
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They emerge from periods of punctuated equilibrium with radically different structures that once again begin slowly evolving .
still
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Finance opportunities: financial mechanisms are still evolving and are not yet assured of success.
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It is one that is still evolving .
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The new digital media are still evolving .
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These new rules are still evolving and are becoming operative in some parts of the economy more quickly than in others.
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By the end of the year the managers were not able to talk confidently about their styles, which were still evolving .
■ NOUN
animal
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To dispel another myth: we have not entirely evolved from this animal ability to use our senses for survival.
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Indeed, the idea that humans are curiously evolved cousins of the animals seems basic to primitive myth in general.
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One is that, because we have evolved from other animals , it makes sense to project downwards from ourselves.
form
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They evolved a form of worship which required neither priest, Temple nor sacrifice.
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It may seem odd that sterile animals can evolve a variety of forms , but this too comes from indirect natural selection.
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Dealing with this problem, many species have evolved various forms of colour change.
idea
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The present-day breeding habits of some birds give us a reasonably good idea of how polyandry evolved .
kind
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It has independently evolved a quite different kind of lung from that of our ancestors - an air chamber surrounding the gills.
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The game evolved into the kind of event that you feared would either feature the headliner little, or not at all.
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That's Tunnel's motto, and because of this the studio has evolved into a special kind of working environment.
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The genes for cell division did not evolve to separate different kinds of fish.
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I conjecture that co-adapted meme-complexes evolve in the same kind of way as co-adapted gene-complexes.
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Males have evolved other kinds of counter-adaptations to prevent sperm competition.
society
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As society evolved from the end of the nineteenth century, so pressure for local government reorganization increased.
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Today, society has evolved and the wheel has come full circle.
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Complex societies have evolved in which production is organized in massively detailed systems of interdependency.
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Potential sources of human infections change as society evolves .
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Almost all anthropologists have followed suit, speaking of primitive cultures as compared with the civilizations that more developed societies have evolved .
species
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Each species has evolved to deal with life in separate compartments.
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Some species of pests then evolve ways of breaking down the toxins, and so on.
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In other species males have evolved special weapons with which they fight over females.
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Each academic species has evolved its own language, so interdisciplinary communication is rare and fitful.
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So how could a species slowly and randomly evolve the ability not to be killed outright?
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It is not so much the organism or the species that evolves , but the entire system, species plus environment.
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Dealing with this problem, many species have evolved various forms of colour change.
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The fossil record shows that species do not evolve , &038;.
strategy
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It was that very intelligence which evolved the master strategies .
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The difficult part - at least before creating the advertising itself - is to evolve a creative strategy to meet the objectives.
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As a result, lower and upper rivers evolve their own investment strategy .
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Starfish, the most easily recognisable of the echinoderms have in addition evolved a further reproduction strategy .
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How to evolve a strategy to actually sell a product.
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Mr Court acknowledged that management consultants and advertising agencies had overlapping roles in evolving brand strategy .
style
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What is evolving is a derivative style , or faux formal.
system
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The immune system has evolved to defend the individual against a diverse array of micro-organisms.
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Over time, some bicameral systems have evolved toward unicameral systems.
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In parallel with the work of the classification theorists, general systems theory has evolved to consider similar problems.
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During the industrial era, our political system evolved to respond to the needs of a mass society.
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Social systems evolve in close relation to ecology.
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The entire system of evolving life and planet was coevolution, the dance of the chameleon on the mirror.
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As time goes by, the system will evolve according to the laws of science and its state will change.
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The Poole Advertiser has slightly more advanced software than the Messenger Group but both systems are evolving almost daily.
technology
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We have no way of knowing whether any other animals now extinct - pterodactyls perhaps? - also evolved the technology independently.
way
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Do you think they evolved that way ?
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Some species of pests then evolve ways of breaking down the toxins, and so on.
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In addition, some bacteria and all green plants have evolved ways of using light as a source of energy.
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This has allowed the protocol definition to evolve in a controlled way by the incorporation of tested ideas.
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All these spikes evolved originally as a way of preventing predation by larger fish.
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And then Sendak's most celebrated book evolved way beyond the toy department.
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Some agents of disease, too, have failed to evolve their way around medical advance, although some day they may.
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Fish moved from the lower parts to the headwaters soon evolve local ways .
ways
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In addition, some bacteria and all green plants have evolved ways of using light as a source of energy.
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Some species of pests then evolve ways of breaking down the toxins, and so on.
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Fish moved from the lower parts to the headwaters soon evolve local ways .
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That was before a new seventeenth-century protectiveness evolved special ways to treat kids.
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Its descendants evolved in quite different ways .
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Salmonella and Listeria have both evolved ways to hide in white blood cells without being destroyed.
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Groups evolve expected ways to behave which their members must normally obey.
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No one can be quite sure, of course, what has caused the two species to evolve in slightly different ways .
years
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Challenge the routines that have evolved over the years .
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It has evolved over the years from a nouveau style to a more weighty red wine with distinctive black raspberry fruit.
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They have evolved over millions of years to occupy their own niche, under the forest's protection.
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It all sounds a bit complicated and slightly confusing, but the system has evolved over many years and it works.
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It is therefore useful to bear in mind how these views have evolved over recent years .
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But really it was a skilled, even magical, craft, evolved over two hundred years .
■ VERB
begin
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From his observation and writings, it is clear that the structures of intelligence and feelings begin to evolve during infancy.
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Turnkey systems arrived soon after and the technology began to evolve and grow rapidly.
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Not until later does awareness of causality begin to evolve .
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A specification for the computer system which will satisfy the user's requirements begins to evolve .
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They emerge from periods of punctuated equilibrium with radically different structures that once again begin slowly evolving .
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Within Tierra, programs began to evolve into shorter versions of themselves.
continue
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The content of core programmes will continue to evolve to reflect the changing reality of the business environment.
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And they were continuing to evolve , heading for a deeper sense of responsibility.
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It is interesting to note that certain problems which have been solved by technological improvements reappear as the technology continues to evolve .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Brooks's original idea has now evolved into an official NASA program.
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If you want to be a poet, you must evolve your own style of writing.
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Many scientists now believe that birds evolved from dinosaurs.
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The city's importance as a financial centre has evolved slowly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In fact, biologists now know that eyes arose and evolved independently at least 40 times.
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It may require considerable skill to calculate in just what circumstances particular acts will evolve .
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Someday, I think, it will evolve into a place with real golf spirit.
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The game evolved into the kind of event that you feared would either feature the headliner little, or not at all.
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Thereafter it evolved rapidly into a formidable force.
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They evolve by changing the attitudes, accessibility and availability of the said sport.
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They feed, in the main, on flowering plants, themselves evolved from ancestors without flowers.