adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
acutely/highly embarrassed (= extremely embarrassed )
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The government must be acutely embarrassed by the minister’s behaviour.
densely/heavily/highly/thickly populated (= with a lot of people )
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one of the most densely populated areas in the world
extremely/highly effective
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The company launched a highly effective advertising campaign.
extremely/highly efficient
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The factory is modern and highly efficient.
extremely/highly/fairly etc flexible
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Our new computer software is extremely flexible.
greatly/highly exaggerated (= by a large amount )
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The union put the figure at 5,000, but we believe this has been greatly exaggerated.
highly addictive
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Tobacco is highly addictive .
highly ambitious (= who want their children to be successful )
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mothers who are highly ambitious for their children
highly amused (= very amused )
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I could see she was highly amused .
highly amusing (= very amusing )
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a highly amusing film
highly articulate
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a highly articulate speaker
highly automated
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a highly automated factory
highly beneficial
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Cycling is highly beneficial to health and the environment.
highly characteristic (= very typical )
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the highly characteristic flint walls of the local houses
highly charged
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a highly charged debate
highly commendable
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Your enthusiasm is highly commendable .
highly commended
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The paper was highly commended in the UK Press Awards.
highly complex
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Photosynthesis is a highly complex process.
highly controversial
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This policy is highly controversial.
highly critical
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He made some highly critical remarks.
highly cultivated
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a highly cultivated man
highly desirable
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The ability to speak a foreign language is highly desirable .
highly developed
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Dogs have a highly developed sense of smell.
highly dubious
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The assumption that growth in one country benefits the whole world is highly dubious .
highly educated
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a highly educated woman
highly esteemed
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highly esteemed scholars
highly exceptional (= extremely exceptional )
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A loan of this size is highly exceptional.
highly explosive
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Because the gas is highly explosive , it needs to be kept in high-pressure containers.
Highly flammable
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Caution! Highly flammable liquid.
highly illegal (= completely illegal )
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It all sounds highly illegal.
highly improbable
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It seems highly improbable that he had no knowledge of the affair.
highly infectious
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Flu is highly infectious.
highly inflammable
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Petrol is highly inflammable.
highly influential
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a highly influential art magazine
highly intelligent (= very intelligent )
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a group of highly intelligent students
highly irregular (= extremely irregular )
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It would be highly irregular for a minister to accept payments of this kind.
highly mechanized
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Car production is now highly mechanized .
highly mobile (= very mobile )
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We now live in a highly mobile society.
highly motivated
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The students are all highly motivated .
highly nutritious
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The cookbook contains many simple yet highly nutritious meals.
highly organized (= well-organized )
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a highly organized social system
highly original
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a highly original design
highly partisan
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British newspapers are highly partisan.
highly politicized
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Abortion is a highly politicized issue.
highly popular (= extremely popular )
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a highly popular radio station
highly praised
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a highly praised novel
highly prestigious
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a highly prestigious university
highly priced (= expensive )
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The clothes shops all seemed to be full of highly priced designer clothes.
highly prized
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The company’s shoes are highly prized by fashion conscious youngsters.
highly probable
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Success is highly probable .
highly problematic
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The reforms could turn out to be highly problematic .
highly productive
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a highly productive meeting
highly profitable
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a highly profitable business
highly qualified
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All the other applicants seemed highly qualified.
highly qualified
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The pilots who fly these planes are highly qualified.
highly questionable
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The statistics are highly questionable .
highly radioactive
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a consignment of highly radioactive plutonium
highly recommend
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This book is highly recommended by those who have used it.
highly regarded (= regarded as very good )
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His work is highly regarded by art experts.
highly responsive
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a car with highly responsive steering
highly seasoned
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a highly seasoned piece of fish
highly sensitive
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a highly sensitive electronic camera
highly sensitive
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highly sensitive information
highly significant
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The result is highly significant for the future of the province.
highly skilled
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The company is fortunate to have such highly skilled workers.
highly sophisticated
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a highly sophisticated weapons system
highly specialized
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the highly specialized plants that live in desert areas
highly structured
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The interviews were highly structured .
highly subjective
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a highly subjective point of view
highly successful (= very successful )
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Arthur was a highly successful businessman.
highly successful (= very successful )
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a highly successful product
highly successful (= very successful )
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a highly successful meeting
highly suspect
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The company was involved in some highly suspect business dealings.
highly suspect
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The two men were convicted on the basis of some highly suspect evidence.
highly suspicious
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He was behaving in a highly suspicious manner.
highly toxic
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a highly toxic pesticide
highly trained
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a highly trained workforce
highly variable
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Interest rates can be highly variable .
highly visible
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Cyclists should wear highly visible colours.
highly volatile
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the highly volatile stock and bond markets
highly/deeply sceptical
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He is highly sceptical of the reforms.
highly/entirely/wholly appropriate
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I thought his remark was highly appropriate, given the circumstances.
highly/fiercely/intensely etc competitive
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Advertising is an intensely competitive business.
highly/greatly respected
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The author is a highly respected historian.
highly/intensely active
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an intensely active child
highly/most/very unlikely
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It’s highly unlikely that he’ll survive.
highly/purely/largely speculative
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a purely speculative theory about life on other planets
highly/very accomplished
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a highly accomplished designer
highly/very dangerous
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it was a highly dangerous situation.
highly/widely/universally acclaimed
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The book has been widely acclaimed by teachers and pupils.
much/highly sought-after
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a much sought-after defense lawyer
rate...highly (= think he is very good )
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The company seems to rate him very highly .
seriously/highly/grossly etc misleading
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These figures are highly misleading.
speak well/highly of sb (= say good things about them )
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He always spoke very highly of Marge.
totally/highly/completely etc irresponsible
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When it comes to money, Dan is completely irresponsible.
very/deeply/highly unpopular
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This bill is deeply unpopular with the rest of the Republican establishment.
very/extremely/immensely/highly etc complicated
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Mental illness is a very complicated subject.
very/highly suitable ( also eminently suitable formal )
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This exercise is very suitable for back pain sufferers.
very/highly/eminently readable
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The book is informative and highly readable.
very/highly/extremely competent
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She’s a highly competent linguist.
very/highly/extremely likely
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It did not seem very likely that he was still alive.
very/highly/extremely suggestible
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At that age, kids are highly suggestible.
very/highly/most satisfactory
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After her initial difficulties she has made a very satisfactory recovery.
very/most/highly unusual
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Gandhi was a most unusual politician.
well/widely/highly publicized (= receiving a lot of attention )
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His visit was highly publicized.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
competent
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Transformation of highly competent E.coli cells with the ligation mixture gave rise to one Ap R clone.
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All three were highly competent , but their ambitions overrode their talent.
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He was a skilled and artistic weaver ... A highly competent woodworker ... A good herdsman ... A fine farmer ....
competitive
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He guided her through a leading fashion school and she established herself in a highly competitive industry.
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Advancement to supervisory positions is highly competitive .
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What's more, we offer you the height of luxury at highly competitive prices.
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Overall processing costs are highly competitive with other existing, environmentally acceptable technologies.
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They were highly competitive , didn't belong to trade unions and lacked any notion of worker solidarity.
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Other Areas are in the throes of heavy training schedules and will create a highly competitive spirit in Portlaoise.
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Among the maharajas tiger shooting became highly competitive .
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A.R. Getting into drama school is highly competitive and requires an audition and interview.
complex
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However, most of these methods paid insufficient attention to the highly complex nature of landscape values, while overemphasizing scenic attractiveness.
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But the components for Worldwide Plaza were already highly complex when they arrived on site.
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Social psychology is clearly another large and highly complex topic.
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The Aborigines have a highly complex civilization, one that has existed for 60, 000 years.
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The establishment of a new political system based on law was a highly complex matter and needed careful consideration, he said.
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Technology transfer is highly complex and often misunderstood.
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Rather, it reflects the need for different conceptualizations to cover the different dimensions of a highly complex phenomenon.
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Yet beer - good beer - is a highly complex product and one that arguably needs greater skill to produce than wine.
controversial
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The Public Order Act was a necessary but highly controversial piece of legislation.
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The ambassadorial nominations were highly controversial at the time.
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Suranyi's effective dismissal was highly controversial .
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The book was highly controversial and sold unbelievably well.
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How changes in money supply affect aggregate demand is a highly controversial issue.
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Many of these were highly political, some also highly controversial .
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The trial of Shbeilat and Qarrash had been highly controversial .
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The result was a highly controversial draw, most ringside commentators agreeing that Hope deserved victory.
critical
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There has recently been some highly critical re-assessment of the claims initially made by ape language experimenters on behalf of their subjects.
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In fact, four years ago Clinton was highly critical of federal policies originated and implemented by George Bush.
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He was highly critical of the use of private houses for Government Offices.
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He would shuffle around in his seat and then be highly critical , but he always knew what was going on.
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The Bill's initial popularity began to wane after an intense media barrage of highly critical commercials.
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Chomsky is therefore highly critical of the way in which Skinner uses operant terminology to account for language.
dangerous
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It's meant for children with growth problems, and can be highly dangerous if misused.
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This is a highly dangerous trend, because there is no telling where it will end.
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It would be highly dangerous if we had the choice of tampering with instinct.
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For the Ego, it is highly dangerous to get too close to anyone.
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Even outside a nuclear weapon it is a highly dangerous substance - fatal to humans if ingested in even minute quantities.
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That kind of knowledge could be highly dangerous , and she would do just about anything to keep it from him.
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Each of the three seems to be highly dangerous .
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The manoeuvre he had planned was highly dangerous and quite illegal.
desirable
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Pure white cotton is, however, highly desirable for the evening.
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Only 28 percent rated a video on-demand service as highly desirable .
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Other authorities have held back before embarking on such highly desirable projects because of that uncertainty in the law.
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Moreover, the news audience is a highly desirable one.
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I regard that form of protection as highly desirable and an important part of our proposals.
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Now it has just been seen that the laws of physics are efficiently ordered so as to produce highly desirable states.
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It is highly desirable that from every product in regular production, samples be withdrawn periodically and put on long-term stability test.
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But it was highly desirable from the point of view of the individual soldiers on both sides.
effective
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It is well targeted and highly effective .
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This drug is highly effective when used within the first several hours after the onset of acute arthritis.
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Both vaccines are highly effective and safe.
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He will have a reduced role, but a highly effective one.
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We need spies because Soviet security is highly effective .
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The defense was highly effective in the first half, as Stanford shot 30. 4 percent.
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Gold salts are highly effective in the management of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, most adverse reactions being mild and reversible.
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Griffiths' solutions were radical but, potentially, highly effective .
efficient
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Culturing microorganisms offers a highly efficient means of producing high-protein food supplements for a hungry world of the future.
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They are highly efficient and especially adroit at cutting out excessive steps and cumbersome procedures.
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Though this makes many passengers change aeroplanes, it is highly efficient for the airlines themselves.
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It was unlikely that this highly efficient virus would carry any superfluous baggage.
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Law was a highly efficient , rather unimaginative, detailed administrator, given political force by a strong sense of partisan combativeness.
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They know him only as a highly efficient and exacting captain.
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These national breeding programmes are highly efficient and successful but the diversity has been lost.
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We offer: advice about trading partners, finance shaped to your requirements and highly efficient payment and collection systems.
improbable
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The fact that highly improbable circumstances could result in significant upside potential should not affect the presentation.
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Indeed, it makes such an occurrence very highly improbable .
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This would be a highly improbable conclusion.
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Therefore the existence of a universe as stable as this is highly improbable .
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It is therefore highly improbable if not impossible that recent damage to a roof would have caused rot in underlying timbers.
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But it is still highly improbable , a fluke of nature, not a predictable outcome.
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Frankly, this seems highly improbable .
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It is all truly amazing, and highly improbable , given all the ways the system could break down.
influential
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In this respect no figure is more characteristic of the twentieth century than the highly influential economist John Maynard Keynes.
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Through the Pattens, Joe met many new friends, some highly influential , others merely famous.
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Marxist - Leninist ideas became highly influential among the intelligentsia in the 1920s and have remained so ever since.
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The ie has ceased to exist as a legal entity, but the family unit has remained highly influential .
intelligent
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Baboons are highly intelligent animals and learn to satisfy their biological needs in many often diverse ways.
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A highly intelligent , highly motivated, and extremely personable young woman, Crystal has had numerous supports along the way.
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Now as then, Gielgud is acute, highly intelligent and concerned to help draw a full portrait.
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City Hall insiders described Cruz as highly intelligent and ultrasensitive to minority issues.
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Alix seemed to her to be both practical and highly intelligent .
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By the time she was ready to go, this highly intelligent and capable woman spoke the language fluently.
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First, that rugby players are a highly intelligent , dedicated and wise bunch.
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He was 24, highly intelligent , could drink Malc under the table and had a dry, lightning wit.
likely
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It seems highly likely that this contributes to their increased risk of infection.
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This sequence is not inevitable, but is highly likely to occur eventually unless adequate steps are taken to prevent it.
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It seems highly likely that most if not all the beer produced in Brick Lane by now was porter.
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Indeed, it seems highly likely that working-class families would have controlled family size through the old, rather than new, techniques.
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A survey will be carried out of sewage disposal systems and it is highly likely that major expenditure will be necessary.
original
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He learnt the lesson well, and has since produced an impressive and highly original body of work.
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In a highly original twist, the game allows you to determine the moral caliber of the hero.
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A fine revival of a highly original piece of music theatre.
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Blackwell glossed reproduction in a highly original way, fusing it with claims for an active female sexuality.
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For instance, they created highly original relief panels to decorate the Sebasteion as well as other sculpture that adapted earlier models for different purposes.
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Wallis made a small but highly original contribution to the art and connoisseurship of his time.
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An older repaint over a highly original car, this interesting specification Rover 2000 would respond well to careful detailing.
popular
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Newsgroups are also highly popular as a means of tracing family members who may have fled conflict or natural disaster.
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Once highly popular , his ratings in the polls sometimes dropped into single digits.
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An example is the once highly popular low-carbohydrate method of slimming.
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President Hashemi Rafsanjani, a highly popular figure, chose not to run again.
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PERRIER-JOUET Good consistent quality wines produced by this mainstream highly popular house.
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And the booklets costing $ 5. 95 are also highly popular .
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These courses proved highly popular with our lads and there was practically a hundred percent pass rate.
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And Stewart was highly popular among his peers.
probable
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There is no record of Osbald's parentage but a Bernician extraction seems highly probable .
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But the generality and power can vary from the local and tentative to the universal and highly probable .
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It is highly probable that book provision and use will be a significant component in such inspections.
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It is highly probable that many of those in the initial cohort of patients would have died.
productive
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Tokugawa agriculture was highly productive , and the amount levied in tax suggests that production was well above subsistence level.
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At one time this was a highly productive dairy region-30 ranches-one of the biggest in the country.
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And, work-wise, it proved to be a highly productive fortnight.
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Longwall mining is a highly mechanized and highly productive method of underground mining.
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The use of highly productive equipment means that bonus cut-off can be achieved with ease.
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So one could go on to many other sociologists who have been highly productive during their careers.
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As we move into a well-fed and highly productive era, new diseases transmitted through our food are regularly emerging.
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This might be high if workers were scarce or highly productive and low if they were redundant or incompetent.
profitable
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Slavery is, then, under certain conditions, a highly profitable system of exploitation.
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But they found no trace of the highly profitable illegal cargo that it was supposed to be carrying.
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Co. in San Francisco said oil companies had been expected to turn in a highly profitable quarter.
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The aim is to produce beers that are sterile, have a long shelf life and are highly profitable .
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Tuft denies Catania's contentions, although he concedes the company borrows heavily and is not highly profitable .
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The venture was an immediate and highly profitable success in the years between the Wars.
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If you are seeking a highly profitable instant business, you will probably be disappointed-it does not exist.
questionable
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Whether that is so in other societies, which is highly questionable , is irrelevant.
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However, she makes two highly questionable assumptions that must be challenged.
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In fact, it is highly questionable whether the royal use of these powers had been illegal.
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Such a view seems highly questionable .
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To most people today the prophecy about the second coming seems deranged and the other about everlasting life highly questionable .
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These are, however, highly questionable principles in the moral and practical minefield of child care policy.
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The cogency of this prescriptive analysis is highly questionable .
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Now, it happens that is a very controversial and highly questionable economic proposition.
radioactive
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Finding ways of soothing political opposition to the dumping of highly radioactive waste could prove more difficult than solving the scientific problems.
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The third isotope of hydrogen, hydrogen-3 or tritium, is highly radioactive and has a very short half-life.
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A Green Party spokesman said that spent fuel rods are highly radioactive and potentially lethal.
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Fuel rods typically last from two to six years and are highly radioactive .
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This is because higher level waste is initially rich in short-lived isotopes which are highly radioactive .
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The residual plutonium is apparently being held in the form of highly radioactive waste.
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The process leaves behind a highly radioactive liquor as a waste product.
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In its native state it is a mixture of highly radioactive uranium-235 and less active U-238.
readable
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In common with Boyd's previous works the text is authoritative while at the same time highly readable .
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Fascinating and highly readable , this book will satisfy scholars as well as more casual readers.
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The Intimate Machine raises many issues concerning the social impact of computers in an invigorating and highly readable manner.
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This highly readable account deserves a wide audience and should provoke serious debate.
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A well researched, highly readable account of the debt crisis.
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Impassioned, angry, funny, highly readable .
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The result is absorbing and highly readable .
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As anyone who had heard Professor Jennings lecture will expect, the style is highly readable as well as informative.
relevant
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The prognosis of the condition is highly relevant since it may indicate increasing difficulty in using printed material.
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All these would now become highly relevant issues.
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Yet for all that, Reagan was not without experience highly relevant to the demands of executive leadership in the 1980s.
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The latter are highly relevant to the debate in progress.
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In this respect, voluntary codes of practice applied in a particular trade are highly relevant .
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Consider the following interesting, and highly relevant , case.
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The Secretary of State is also prone to make pronouncements which can be highly relevant , especially on appeal.
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Detailed records about what social workers have established may be highly relevant here.
selective
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It is inevitably highly selective , both in the Acts it covers and in what it includes from each Act.
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But memory is highly selective , particularly within an organization that has weathered numerous crises and moments of extreme duress.
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Perhaps it is Upjohn that is being highly selective regarding evidence on serious psychiatric reactions to triazolam.
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These leaders need to recognize the need to be highly selective about what to incorporate into their operations.
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What an animal learns is highly selective and highly ordered.
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The virus proved highly selective in killing several lines of human cancer cells in laboratory cell cultures.
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In any event, we are highly selective about blanket sanctions.
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Compatibility is crucial, so the process is highly selective .
sensitive
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It can not be stressed too heavily that taking tissue samples was a highly sensitive matter.
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Managers need to handle highly sensitive direct contacts with clients.
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Such a condition also makes living organisms highly sensitive to their environment, reflecting the characteristics of mind and consciousness themselves.
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Unlike the highly sensitive child, the defiant child has some physical characteristics that make a more aggressive approach possible.
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He seems highly sensitive to criticism in the press.
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Parents can help such highly sensitive children by showing them how to soothe themselves.
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For Tod is highly sensitive to this material.
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The book touches a highly sensitive chord.
significant
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It was a highly significant one.
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Because most of the data in this world is inexact, this characteristic becomes highly significant .
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Nevertheless, national security issues and the incidence of military conflict remain highly significant .
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We see birth as highly significant , but not as an isolated experience.
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Although these are mostly non-Anglican in a land where only 2.5% of Christians are Episcopalian, they are highly significant .
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Those who later gave birth to sons averaged 2. 26, a highly significant difference.
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The officer in charge of the case says it was a highly significant find.
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This is highly significant for understanding the nature of his perceived relationship to his government.
skilled
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How is this possible if the art of persuasion is such a highly skilled task?
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The most highly skilled soldiers advocated rapid maneuver and quick assault when contact was made.
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These surveys are invariably undertaken by specialist research organizations, since the construction and administration of questionnaires is a highly skilled operation.
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Keeping highly skilled sailors in the Navy also is a challenge.
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Pattern making is a highly skilled occupation and patterns can be extremely expensive to produce.
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Highly motivated and highly skilled individuals will prosper in this environment.
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As a result, in many countries, the wage gap between lowly and highly skilled workers has widened sharply.
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Its goal was to create a highly skilled workforce for the Susquehanna Valley, where P &038; G is located.
sophisticated
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A highly sophisticated and well-read composer such as Britten could be expected to look for his own Hofmannsthal.
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Some of these are highly sophisticated and provide almost complete control of the duty cycle over a 100 percent variation.
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They are highly sophisticated , crammed with electronics, and often carry their own helicopter.
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However, the emplacement vessel or platform would need to be highly sophisticated - perhaps a larger version of the Glomar Explorer.
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For more exotic dinner parties this one, or at least for those of a highly sophisticated and refined palette!
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Between them, those cells produce a highly sophisticated and intricate attack upon the source of infection.
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They're highly sophisticated infra-red beams, virtually undetectable to the naked eye.
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Dealers have been showered with complaints about this highly sophisticated piece of equipment which has apparently developed a serious fault.
specific
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Where psychology does produce theories, they are highly specific to particular debates.
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This is the basis of a highly specific method for the measurement of blood glucose.
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There was much use of natural materials, and craftsmen expected like medieval masons to be given general rather than highly specific directions.
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These cowards practice randomness in highly specific places.
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Fourth thesis: Higher education is open whereas research is closed Research is highly specific .
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Inpart, this is because of the shortcomings of that highly specific subject framework.
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This provides strong evidence that the hybridization signals obtained are highly specific and due to the transfected plasmid.
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The name can convey a highly specific meaning or less than nothing, depending on your audience.
speculative
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All three approaches were highly speculative .
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Federally insured thrifts that traditionally had limited their investments to home mortgages began bingeing on highly speculative investments.
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The savings figure, then, is highly speculative , but it is certainly good publicity for the department.
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The programme of explaining characteristics of dominant life-forms in terms simply of survival value is controversial and highly speculative .
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This, however, is highly speculative and largely dependent on a perpetual bull market.
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Or he may simply be taking a highly speculative position.
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Here are the real facts: Crane Holdings was in fact a highly speculative investment which in the event performed very badly.
subjective
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Reactions can therefore be highly subjective and we may find ourselves disagreeing strongly with what the artist is saying.
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Evaluative core beliefs, however, are often highly subjective .
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Each year, a decision is taken, often on a highly subjective basis, on our continuing worth.
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Data on the market value of autos and houses can be highly subjective .
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In the final analysis a judgement on the political stability of most countries must be highly subjective .
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Secondly, many of the symptoms produced are highly subjective - headache, confusion or nausea, for example.
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To start the Christmas debate, the following are highly subjective and totally personal suggestions.
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However, this is a highly subjective area in which the rules themselves can only be guiding principles.
successful
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There's a highly successful advertising executive, once handsome and athletic, now eaten away and ravaged.
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He continued to pursue photography after his stint in the military, eventually becoming a highly successful commercial photographer.
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It's a highly successful business.
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We are trying to build machines that draw upon the highly successful designs used in biology.
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To her career as an actress, the always practical Lillie now added another: that of a highly successful racehorse owner.
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I know a highly successful radiologist who has always dreamed of being a singer, but he has no voice.
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This proved a highly successful practical joke.
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This stretch of water close to Phoenix has proved to be a highly successful put-and-take fishery from a recreation standpoint.
suspicious
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Obviously he behaved in a highly suspicious manner today, but a guilty conscience can inspire one to do strange things.
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The one on the rock looked over slowly, highly suspicious .
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He found two types, the highly suspicious and the willing business partners.
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She thinks he's a highly suspicious character.
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She thinks Alexander is a highly suspicious character, although that wouldn't require any great acumen on anyone's part.
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All the members are highly suspicious .
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We don't know him, we don't trust him and we think he's a highly suspicious character.
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Volunteering a wager was unprecedented, therefore highly suspicious .
toxic
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Liver damage is known to occur when the breakdown product of a chemical is highly toxic .
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Heating oil is highly toxic in the short term, but it evaporates quickly, reducing the long-term damage.
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Read in studio A man who's accused of dumping highly toxic waste into a river has been remanded on bail.
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Police are warning that the chemicals are highly toxic and anyone who comes into contact with them should seek urgent medical attention.
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The drugs used are highly toxic and those in charge have to learn the dangers both to themselves and to patients.
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Among that sludge were quantities of the heavy metal Cadmium, known to be highly toxic .
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But it appears to be highly toxic , especially when vaporised.
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High level waste remains active for 250,000 years and is highly toxic to most life forms.
unlikely
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A return to formalism is highly unlikely given popular expectations of individualized justice.
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Anglers say it is highly unlikely as they are cold-blooded creatures.
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A couple of other points that make the purchase of Gazza highly unlikely . 1.
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It is, therefore, highly unlikely that imitation of adult models can explain their occurrence.
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Personally I thought this highly unlikely .
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In a climate of radical spending cuts, the latter seems highly unlikely .
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Scores of anecdotes in this book make these figures look highly unlikely .
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It may be a hybrid - if so, it is highly unlikely that it will produce young.
unusual
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The local committees varied greatly in their composition and operating procedures, some of which were highly unusual .
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It was a highly unusual presentation.
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You can also enjoy a highly unusual view of the area through the cameraobscura at Foredown Tower and Countryside Centre.
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Receiving such intensive medical therapy is highly unusual , allergists said.
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This was highly unusual , since most golfers prefer their caddies to be well out of the way for such crucial short putts.
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They were the ultimate female role models: highly unusual , gifted, respected women.
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Even so, the discovery of an unknown mass grave is highly unusual .
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This was highly unusual at that time.
variable
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The rather specific environmental requirements of salt weathering mean that its action is spatially highly variable .
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The period-to-period growth in offshore deposits at times has been highly variable relative to the growth in domestic deposits.
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The attitude of employers to domestic responsibilities is of considerable importance and highly variable .
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These fish are highly variable in color and pattern.
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Communication Colour is more important to fish than to mammals and birds, and in fish it is often highly variable .
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Although it was policy for all children to be welcome in council provision, in reality this was highly variable .
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Staining times in particular are highly variable , and those given herein should only be used as a starting point.
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The amount of delegation that occurs is thus highly variable and seldom entirely predictable.
visible
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It is highly visible , but there is an enormous mass of activity underneath.
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Those highly visible operations, which featured heavily armed government forces using aggressive pressure tactics, ended in deadly violence.
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Unemployment in the 1920s and 1930s, partly through the types of demonstrations outlined above, was highly visible .
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It is characteristic of most research writing that topic areas are set off, underlined or otherwise made highly visible .
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The operation would be highly visible .
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The results were highly visible and, in short order, Tom was promoted.
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Mrs Thatcher was still highly visible at international summits, but often now as an obstructive, quarrelsome figure.
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Cultural intolerance, even in this highly visible , assimilated school, is everywhere.
volatile
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Thus the L curve can be highly volatile .
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High-tech stocks have always been highly volatile , partly because of their past booms and busts.
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This is partly because changes in institutional stockholding can make markets highly volatile and therefore risky for smaller investors.
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Weekly unemployment claims are a highly volatile indicator and prove little by themselves.
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Long-term trends suggest that economic optimism was highly volatile .
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It is highly volatile , and through its impact on productivity affects both supply and demand sides of the economy.
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As a consequence, fertility has been highly volatile .
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become
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The damage that goats can inflict on each other with their sharp horns is so great that aggression has become highly ritualised.
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All these would now become highly relevant issues.
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Salt, therefore, became highly prized.
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Because most of the data in this world is inexact, this characteristic becomes highly significant.
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The House of Windsor has become highly adept at the business of its own survival.
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I was becoming highly agitated, and a little claustrophobic.
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Among the maharajas tiger shooting became highly competitive.
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Over time, this supermarket company had become highly diversified.
charge
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Surman's highly charged lyricism adds a vital extra dimension.
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Cecilia viuda is highly charged emotionally and tears flow freely.
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In a highly charged meeting the council backed him by 459 votes to 403.
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His literary style is representative of this highly charged emotional tone.
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In this Lange creates a highly charged emotional text dependent upon her use of children and the mother.
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The highly charged atmosphere of the House panel contrasted sharply with a similar investigation being conducted in the Senate, where Sen.
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Even in this highly charged emotional moment she knew she must not forget the milkman.
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In fact it is a highly charged political question.
develop
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For smaller companies, where financial controls are not highly developed , factoring may prove the answer.
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But perhaps the most vivid and compelling evidence of this highly developed colour sensibility is the artefacts themselves.
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Her strengths are impressive: her competence in the world, her highly developed social skills, her humor, her warmth.
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This leaves him with a personality that is highly developed in one direction at the expense of the rest.
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Ida Rebecca had small book learning but highly developed sensitivity, particularly when it came to judging outsiders.
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Waste incineration is one of the most technically highly developed waste management options at this time.
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General managers and top executives must have highly developed personal skills.
educate
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The highly educated women who have started working apace are hardly competing with unskilled men.
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San Diegans also are highly educated , have current passports and subscribe to cable in large numbers.
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Nurses were more highly educated and accountable for their actions as professionals than they used to be.
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Franklin Roosevelt obviously benefited from his elite, highly educated upbringing.
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She was highly educated and was good at crossword puzzles and so unlikely to make such an elementary error.
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Some of them are very highly educated .
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In practice, spoken language interpreters are highly educated and highly trained.
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The arts tourist is more highly educated , more affluent, and stays longer than the average tourist.
motivate
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They are highly motivated and rarely compromise.
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A highly intelligent, highly motivated , and extremely personable young woman, Crystal has had numerous supports along the way.
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It is essential therefore that the managers are highly motivated .
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Highly motivated and highly skilled individuals will prosper in this environment.
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Students are highly motivated , participate actively in the learning process and receive feedback as to the progress made.
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Like most epileptics who are surgical candidates, Neil is highly motivated .
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It was a motley but highly motivated crew, and in a poll with just 32 % turnout that did the trick.
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Immigrants tend to be a highly motivated , self-selected group with a strong will to succeed.
organize
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North Shields had highly organized workers in the yards and on the railways.
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Political resources: Substantial financial power, strong interest, a few highly organized producers, professional lobbyists. 5.
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They are the result of investment in highly organized scientific and engineering knowledge and skills.
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Richard and his two companions settle into a utopian but highly organized existence.
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But the trade is highly organized .
pay
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The highly paid , like the corporations that employ them, are mobile, and can play one state off against another.
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Montana is one of a number of once highly paid athletes who have filed workers' compensation claims in California.
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However, I criticise the trend towards not having highly paid and experienced staff.
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And you need not have been a highly paid executive to be in that position.
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This demonstrates how difficult it has become to determine the real incomes of such highly paid directors.
place
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The Gingrich investigation is hardly the first time Cole has taken on highly placed public figures.
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Now and then, as a favor to highly placed people, Papa performed operations.
praise
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Francis Beckett's highly praised biography is now available in paperback for the first time.
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She also realizes the attorney, whom she highly praised , worked for relatively low rates.
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Jonathon Miller directed performances of Eugene Onegin and Rigoletto which were highly praised by critics and public.
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The painting of St Basil's Cathedral was highly praised .
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Sweetmeats, cakes or puddings follow ... the variety has been highly praised by our guests over the last five years.
prize
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The affluent viewers who watch financial news are highly prized by advertisers.
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It was something else to tell that to a highly prized research scientist, engineer, or computer programmer.
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Fasting produced intense dreams and the capacity to dream was highly prized .
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The AK47 was a highly prized souvenir and frequently traded by frontline troops to those in the rear for choice booty.
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Its fish are highly prized , and the fish soup from Szeged has until now been a national delicacy.
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Swallows' nests were highly prized delicacies.
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Academic freedom in higher education is something we prize highly .
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And nothing is more highly prized than fiscal responsibility.
publicize
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Tijuana's reputation for drug-related homicides was reinforced last year by several highly publicized cases.
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The highly publicized abortion debate overshadowed the rest of the platform that calls for a smorgasbord of constitutional amendments.
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That question appears to lie at the heart of the highly publicized battle raging between Hasbro Inc. and Mattel Inc.
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Two recent, highly publicized events have helped to bring the literacy crisis to the national attention.
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They changed the subject by noting their prosecution of some highly publicized cases against the Klan and other white supremacist organizations.
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The new regime immediately began to review Davis's many highly publicized deals and were not pleased With the Stax agreement.
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Their highly publicized forays energized and emboldened the Catholic Right.
qualify
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He either carefully studied these himself or arranged for research to be done on them by the most highly qualified specialists.
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However, the number of openings is relatively small; only the most highly qualified are selected.
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This provided them with a highly qualified list of potential customers matching their target demographic groups.
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The preliminary investigation showed that Jeremy was more highly qualified and that management had made a sound decision.
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Staff are highly qualified and specialists in their subjects.
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After several interviews, he selected a much younger, but highly qualified candidate.
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Their instructors must be highly qualified and experienced, and the simulators used in training should embrace all types of accident.
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In one case, a highly qualified chemist was actually requested by the University Council and began to teach early in October.
rate
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Questions on health, self-care and education were all highly rated by over 70 percent of respondents.
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Of the 11 most highly rated wines, six were from California.
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He impressed last year on his rare appearances in the first team and is highly rated .
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Independence does not rate highly with them, whereas their health does.
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Commercialism was not a quality she rated highly , but protection of one's children from outsiders was.
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And all four burners are highly rated .
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Only words rated highly or this latter dimension were included in our lists.
recommend
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The holiday was one I have always dreamed about and I would highly recommend the centre to any outdoor enthusiast.
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Many of these products are as close to the natural diet as one can get and are highly recommended .
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She had come highly recommended , her latest play having run for six months in London.
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A kitchen fan or open windows are highly recommended .
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The hotel grows its own produce and its wines are highly recommended .
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All ages are welcome, and warm clothes are highly recommended , along with a flashlight, binoculars and a blanket.
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Their booklets are written by specialists in the field, and are highly recommended .
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A dunk into that aforementioned garlic butter sauce is highly recommended .
regard
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The artist is highly regarded internationally and has exhibited in many countries.
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He has appointed a highly regarded three-star Marine general, James L.. Jones, to be his military assistant.
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Darjeeling Known as the champagne tea and highly regarded for afternoon drinking.
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This is highly regarded and influential in police circles and the social worker would do well to be aware of its thinking.
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Treasury Secretary John B.. Connally was backing his appointment as a highly regarded tax professional.
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Two incidents marked his highly regarded but controversial career in Chicago.
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The most highly regarded also had an articulate vision, going beyond vapid cliches of what the nation should become.
remain
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I therefore included it as a separate mode although my analysis remained highly tentative.
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The technology of high-speed Internet access on cable systems remains highly promising too.
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Nevertheless he remained highly sceptical of quantum theory.
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It is enough to point out that they remain highly disputed topics of debate in the philosophy of science.
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Exercising that collective responsibility remains highly problematic.
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It remains highly amusing to us.
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Nevertheless, national security issues and the incidence of military conflict remain highly significant.
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The ie has ceased to exist as a legal entity, but the family unit has remained highly influential.
respect
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He is highly respected and is Anthony Herbert's assistant judge in the players' court.
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He is generous and highly respected in the district.
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Ambitious, focused, and in command, Plum was highly respected by his staff end patients.
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Teachers are often highly respected and children will confide in them.
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His playing carried the Dixieland flavor, but he was a highly respected musician who added bluesy vocals to his work.
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Alexander served two exemplary terms as Tennessee governor; the highly respected Senator Lugar is a leading expert on foreign policy.
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Avro Avians were highly respected both for dependability and performance.
seem
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There is no record of Osbald's parentage but a Bernician extraction seems highly probable.
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On the other hand, the Jackson amendment seemed highly unlikely to pass Congress, and the attempt could be costly politically.
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However, such an outcome seems highly unlikely in the present political climate.
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Their own students were defiant and seemed highly unappreciative.
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It seems highly likely that this contributes to their increased risk of infection.
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In general, practical support between relatives seems highly gendered, with women much more involved than men.
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What is much more important is deliberately to look for alternatives even when the present answer or proposal seems highly satisfactory.
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He seems highly sensitive to criticism in the press.
speak
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But her colleagues and superiors could not fault her dedication to the job, speaking highly of her nursing ability.
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A middle-aged man spoke highly of the efforts to place the exhibition in its historical context.
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That has to speak highly for the way in which the software does its internal calculations and comes up with the answers.
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The few contemporary references to Traherne which survive all speak highly both of his learning and of his character.
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Fred always spoke highly of Lord Lurgan's golf.
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I recall you speaking highly of Tullio Serafin?
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Despite initial fears, agencies now speak highly of the effectiveness of the Support Force had in pushing forward the reforms.
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They spoke highly of his friendliness and good manners and, as an afterthought, his professional skills.
specialize
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Essentially, each code word is a separate, highly specialized entity.
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In large organizations, their duties may be highly specialized .
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Jochen Schleese might be described as a highly specialized custom tailor.
string
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Breeds differ in how highly strung they are, how much they snap at children and in their fondness for barking.
structure
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They are not restricted, as formal databases are, to record material that is highly structured .
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It may be particularly difficult for small firms to provide highly structured and intensive work-based learning experiences.
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The first applications therefore were with archive material, which was itself highly structured and which was available in quantity.
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At first, interviews were highly structured .
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It is highly structured with strict procedures and rules for every task.
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We know from the start that it is highly structured .
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The drawing system, if it is any good, is highly structured .
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Unlike Cage and his followers, Glass leaves no room for the intrusion of the random, his music being highly structured .
train
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In practice, spoken language interpreters are highly educated and highly trained .
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Highly trained and experienced financial managers head each financial department.
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Today it is identically equipped to the Regular Army and is highly trained in at least one speciality.
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They were tough, highly trained volunteers in the Airborne, but some looked very young to me.
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Swordsmen are amongst the most highly trained and proficient of the provincial regiments.
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It was, by and large, the domain of highly trained white men.
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The Reiksguard forms an elite core of highly trained , expensively-equipped troops who are loyal to the Emperor in person.
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With the touch of a button, these highly trained technicians can change the picture being transmitted.
value
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The soul of a true Hero always finds a better rate of exchange, and is valued highly by the gods.
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Like the photogram they were highly valued because of the absolute impersonality achieved in the tonal rendering through some mechanistic agency.
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One reason for the Surrealists' relatively slow climb since 1975 is that they were highly valued then.
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Individual contributions are highly valued , within a focus on collaboration and integration.
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Such contributions were highly valued because the members felt that they were learning much about their own school.
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Although this community imposed its own brand of conformity in many ways, individual expression was valued highly .
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Physical education is highly valued and forms part of a fully integrated educational programme based on a unitary conception of man.
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Verbal systems are highly valued as children learn to talk, read, and write.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
brightly/highly/richly etc coloured
finely/highly tuned
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And it is our experience that successful entrepreneurs quickly develop a finely tuned instinct for investing their time in high-profit opportunities.
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Dana had been too determined to avoid her, and Claudia's finely tuned senses told her Dana was uneasy.
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He was a highly tuned machine for using people.
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He was a highly sensitized instrument, a finely tuned social and academic barometer.
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It is a finely tuned art that depends on the perceptive skills and sound judgment of the consultant.
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Or had it been between them, or only in her own highly tuned emotions?
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Secondly, in some species the choice is remarkably finely tuned so that under certain circumstances familiarity may be preferred over novelty.
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True each of them has been finely tuned .
think highly of sb/sth
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Most of the women were college graduates, thought highly of Smith, and were pleased that this stranger was so smart.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a highly flammable liquid
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Danger: highly flammable materials!
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He's a highly gifted young singer.
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I think it's highly unlikely that Bob had anything to do with the theft.
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Our engineers are highly skilled and very difficult to replace when they leave.
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She arrived in Australia as a refugee, but went on to become a highly successful lawyer.
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The demand for highly educated workers is still increasing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An entrance exam guides students into one of four academic tracks, ranging from highly gifted to remedial.
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As little as 55 pounds of highly enriched uranium or 18 pounds of plutonium could be used to build a nuclear device.
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At the same time, shoppers are becoming highly receptive to new technology.
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Branding the Black Chamber highly illegal, he at once directed that all its State Department funds be cut off.
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However, such an outcome seems highly unlikely in the present political climate.
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In others, we see evidence of females highly honored and males almost disregarded.
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This last is not so easy as it may seem, but can be highly illuminating.