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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
make
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It made mincemeat of CoreTest, returning data transfer rates in excess of 1.5Mb/sec.
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She insisted on him staying through my visit, and he made mincemeat of my arguments.
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This book makes mincemeat of the idea that Reagan was a dunce, amiable or otherwise.
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A hostile Public Prosecutor would make mincemeat of her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A specially good recipe within my family is the combination of fresh pineapple cubes with fruit mincemeat .
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As a pie filling it is rich and dark without the cloying and heavy qualities of mincemeat .
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In winter I fill them with a rich and succulent mincemeat mixture.
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She also wants a mincemeat cookie recipe which she saw in a cookbook some 30 years ago.
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She insisted on him staying through my visit, and he made mincemeat of my arguments.
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Stir the brandy into the mincemeat and spoon on to cases.
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This book makes mincemeat of the idea that Reagan was a dunce, amiable or otherwise.