adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a remarkable/amazing/miraculous recovery
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Doctors have every confidence that Laura will continue her remarkable recovery.
have a miraculous escape (= be extremely lucky to escape )
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Ellie had miraculous escape after a firework exploded in her hand.
magical/special/miraculous powers
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Diamonds were once thought to have magical powers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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Its almost miraculous effectiveness in controlling and reversing an otherwise lethal bacterial infection in mice was demonstrated in Oxford in the 1940s.
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It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost miraculous way.
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She says she had a perfect childhood, an almost miraculous childhood.
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The growth rate of some of the important countries of the developed world is almost miraculous .
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He is credited with almost miraculous powers of healing.
■ NOUN
escape
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Nottingham also dreamt of achieving a miraculous escape from relegation.
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My family had been lucky, we had had a charmed life, we had made miraculous escapes .
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They might have had a miraculous escape .
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In this extremity he sought no miraculous escape , no sudden revelation of a known lake.
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The police have described it as a miraculous escape .
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It was here that the aircraft was involved with a miraculous escape after an in-flight fire raged through the aircraft.
recovery
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But she's made a miraculous recovery , and has now been allowed home.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A teenager had a miraculous escape last night when the car she was travelling in overturned.
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The doctor gave her a month to live but she made a miraculous recovery.
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The emergency services said it was miraculous that no-one was seriously injured.
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Try to live as though every moment is miraculous .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After 100 miraculous kilometres we met the other bus returning to Francistown.
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For centuries after his death, the insane were dipped in the waters of his fountains, where many made miraculous recoveries.
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In Love again, the new beloved was perfect and miraculous .
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It is nothing short of miraculous .
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It was a supernatural, miraculous thing, like the haloes of the saints....
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Pat managed to get 147 tapes and 100 books plus lots of magazines through customs in a miraculous way.
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Water is a miraculous substance remover; it will remove probably 85 percent of all stains.