I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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bear
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The major collective syntheses were invariably supervised by the most senior figures in the profession and bear the imprint of authority.
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This is play at its best because it bears the imprint of the child.
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Each phase is the outcome of the one before, whilst bearing the chronic imprint of an interior design.
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All the family stories Jane Gilbert tells bear the imprint of that part of the country.
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Nor do I mean that it bears the imprint of the time when it arose.
leave
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For black people, similarly, colonialism has left its imprint .
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She had left her imprint upon them, and now her mind overlapped with his whenever he wore the sacred lenses.
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The Minneapolis Marvel has left an indelible imprint on her.
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The water, as it lands on the objects, leaves the imprint of the thought again in the form of energy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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This dictionary is published under the Longman imprint .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A third saguaro lies full-length in the dirt, one end squashed flat and stamped with the imprint of tire treads.
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At its summit is a boulder with a hollow resembling the imprint of a man's foot.
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Each phase is the outcome of the one before, whilst bearing the chronic imprint of an interior design.
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In the gardens the grass glistened with dew, which left imprints where the soldiers' feet had passed.
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Its vistas leave a warm and timeless imprint on even the most jaded memory.
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Proprietors do appoint editors and chief-executives; they decide budgets and manning levels and they put their imprint on the total organizations.
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The major collective syntheses were invariably supervised by the most senior figures in the profession and bear the imprint of authority.
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There are more than 2,500 volumes of pre-1800 imprint , and an extensive assemblage of maps, illustrations and ephemera.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
brain
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It's one of those rare books of comic genius that imprints itself on the brain and can never afterwards be eradicated.
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Your nausea is imprinted on my brain .
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These are all negative statements that you have imprinted on to your brain .
mind
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Two events in particular were graphically imprinted on his mind .
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The picture of Joe's doughy white body seemed to be imprinted on his mind .
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The final image he imprinted on Greg's mind was a handsome wreck, a St Pancras Station of a man.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Duncan read through the list, imprinting the information into his memory.
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He glanced down the codings listed on the last of the semi-opaque sheets and imprinted his authorisation.
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Human beings appear to need to imprint themselves on the land.
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Sjoo and Mor tell us that the ancient Arabs imprinted vulvas on its surface.
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The chick will not imprint on objects seen after that time.
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The final image he imprinted on Greg's mind was a handsome wreck, a St Pancras Station of a man.