adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extremely/exceedingly/incredibly lucky (= very lucky )
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Police say it was extremely lucky that no one was killed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
difficult
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To present these views clearly is exceedingly difficult , and Althusser's own account of them is far from luminous.
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The device Blake chose -- a first person narrative -- is exceedingly difficult when using an historical figure.
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Yet the fragmentation of the Church makes it exceedingly difficult to implement anything like normal management practice.
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The question of parallels to these phenomena is exceedingly difficult .
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It also required a feat of imagination that was exceedingly difficult for those imbued with Aristotelian physics.
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Most high-school students, and many college students as well, find it exceedingly difficult to complain about such behavior.
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In short, drawing a boundary between sociolinguistic and pragmatic phenomena is likely to be an exceedingly difficult enterprise.
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It would be exceedingly difficult even to formulate one.
rare
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It should be emphasized that all these complications are exceedingly rare in the Western world today.
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L3-4 herniated disks occur occasionally, but levels higher than this are exceedingly rare .
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This poster is now exceedingly rare and its owner a lucky man.
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In exceedingly rare instances, a neoplasm or arteriovenous malformation may be the cause.
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Today, London is one of the safest major cities in the world and violent crimes are exceedingly rare .
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Explicit presidential discourse on policy issues was exceedingly rare .
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The girls who could actually play on an integrated high-school team would be exceedingly rare .
■ VERB
become
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Some Goblins become very wealthy by trading in this way and the tribe's King becomes exceedingly rich.
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Both Hathor and her potential victims became exceedingly drunk and merry, so she failed at her task.
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Already she had become exceedingly fond of him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I've become exceedingly worried about the future of our nation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But whereas the wretched Io had to pay dearly for the distinction, Europa was exceedingly fortunate.
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Eva was exceedingly grateful for his expertise.
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His Toshi is a heroic character whose naivete and haunted past are shed in this exceedingly likable coming-of-age story.
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So we were exceedingly well-behaved towards each other.
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The salon was small and exceedingly hot.
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The three nails are formed of dark fibrous tissue and are exceedingly sharp.
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This is small but exceedingly well measured.