noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Gulf Stream
unbridgeable gulf/gap/chasm etc (between sb/sth and sb/sth)
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the unbridgeable gulf between the rich and the poor
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
unbridgeable
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Fundamental to Frege's whole approach is the assumption that there exists an unbridgeable logical gulf between concepts and objects.
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It was an almost unbridgeable gulf .
wide
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But that debate revealed a wide gulf between the guild of academic historians and the public.
■ NOUN
war
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The gulf war was fought with cross party agreement.
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S.-allied forces in the 1991 Persian gulf war .
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The new gulf war Public culture is left; private culture is right.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Gulf Stream
yawning gap/gulf/chasm (between sth)
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A yawning gap was forecast between anticipated social expenditures and resources.
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In publishing the Hepplewhite Guide the Taylors were filling a yawning gap.
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Passion 57% A yawning chasm opens up after these four attributes.
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The yawning gap between the two was deeply worrying.
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There are yawning gulfs stretching down into the abyss which have often swallowed up cities that have fallen into them.
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There is and always has been a yawning gap at the budget end of the amplifier market.
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There was nothing there but a terrible, yawning gap.
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To a yawning gap in how I see the world and how the world sees me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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More riots led to a growing gulf between the police and the communities in which they worked.
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The central problem was how to bridge the gulf between the warring factions of the party.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All calls for accommodation masked the gulf that divides abortion opponents and supporters.
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As it was, he clenched his fist and glared at her across the gulf that divided them.
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But the enactment fixed a gulf between the people of Athens and their allies.
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For an impecunious woman of twenty-nine, the gulf was unbridgeable.
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Like all first-rate comic writers, Shaw was fascinated by the gulf between appearance and reality.
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The sheer gulf between the sides spoke volumes.
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They might rediscover the space between words and the gulf between them and those with whom they live.