noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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alien
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Beam to another dimension, alien invaders .
foreign
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The city was the centre of -he battles fought against the Sinhalese by foreign invaders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From the hall behind them they could hear the commotion as their comrades and the invaders fought hand to hand.
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In some people, the system makes mistakes and wrongly identifies an innocent substance as an invader .
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In the long run, both absorbed their invaders, but at very great cost.
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It can't be organised in the presence of invaders.
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It is dominated by the imposing Citadelle de Vauban, constructed in 1549 to defend the island against invaders.
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Or stroll up to one of the distinctive sentry boxes, aligned so defenders could harass would-be invaders with a withering cross-fire.
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Some say the invaders wear short pants.
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WordPerfect executives came to view Novell executives as rude invaders of the corporate equivalent of Camelot.