COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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area
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But in the gray area of the Internet, activities that publishers call stealing are commonplace for many computer users.
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There was never a gray area .
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There are a lot of gray areas where it is hard to decide until you have more information and experience.
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Or decide, in those gray areas , whether something is a tax increase or a benefit cut?
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How it happened is still a gray area .
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Then there is a gray area in which you can operate....
hair
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I need this gray hair for this part....
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Tall and slender, flowing gray hair , very distinguished.
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She unwound the curtain, then wet her fingers and patted his mussed gray hair .
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Further on sits a middle-aged man with a vigorous shock of gray hair .
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She wears dark sunglasses and covers her short-cropped gray hair with an olive-green baseball-style hat.
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Her wispy gray hair was loose, hanging down her back like cobwebs, and her hands were folded in her lap.
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My hand rests lightly on his gray hair , our legs are still entwined.
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Somehow the gray hair seems to suit me.
man
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He also treated the little gray man poorly and was likewise cursed.
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When the little gray man appeared to him, kind Simpleton agreed to share his meal.
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For this kindness, the little gray man gave Simpleton a goose with golden feathers.
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Again, Simpleton went to the little gray man for help; he found a very hungry man.
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Gradually the room filled up with stout, gray men like Stark.
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The little gray man: A magical forest-dweller, he changed into the thirsty man and then the hungry man.
matter
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The tragedy is that you have to twist the knife in your own gray matter to make this defense work.
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And there is little reason to believe that the gray matter inside the skull changed much, either.
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Some gray matter , such as the thalamus, has an intimate back-and-forth relationship with the cerebral cortex.
sky
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Standing between the high gray sky and the pocket-sized pool, I feel omnipotent.
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The morning was shaded by an overcast gray sky .
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There it is-an old clapboard farmhouse against a gray sky .
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We stand on a high sand dune and look out at the sea and the imposing gray sky .
suit
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Off they come, as does my gray suit , which is nothing special but seems strangely fraudulent here.
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Shirts in red, brilliant blue, bright yellow and orange were worn with navy and charcoal gray suits .
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He was wearing an old raincoat over his usual gray suit , button-down shirt, and necktie.
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The image of Hong Kong was all business, gray suits , glass-walled towers.
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He wore a gray suit with, unlike other board members, no pocket hankie.
whale
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From late December to April, scores of California charter boats search out migrating gray whales for tourists.
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Sea World freed three gray whales in 1988 which had been tangled in drift nets.
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In 1988 Sea World freed three gray whales that had become tangled in drift nets.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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gray faceless bureaucrats
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the icy gray waters of the Atlantic
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The telegram came on a gray April day.