I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
attempt/mount a rescue (= try to rescue someone )
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The stormy conditions made it impossible to mount a rescue.
growing/mounting concern
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Growing concern has been expressed over the pollution of the North Sea.
growing/mounting criticism
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The government was faced with mounting criticism at home and abroad.
growing/mounting excitement
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The children waited with growing excitement.
growing/mounting opposition (= opposition that is increasing )
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There was growing opposition to the war.
growing/mounting unrest
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Rocketing unemployment led to growing unrest in the country.
growing/mounting/rising panic (= increasing panic )
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She quickly packed a bag, trying all the time to control her mounting panic.
growing/rising/mounting anger
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There is growing anger among drivers over the rise in fuel prices.
hold/mount/stage an exhibition formal (= have an exhibition )
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Hayward Gallery is mounting an impressive exhibition of new British artists.
hold/stage/mount a protest
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Opponents of the plan have staged several protests.
increasing/growing/mounting/rising tension
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There are reports of increasing tension in some areas.
increasing/mounting anxiety
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There is mounting anxiety about the rise in violent crime.
increasing/mounting pressure
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There was increasing pressure on the Chancellor to cut petrol tax.
launch/mount a campaign (= begin a campaign )
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They have launched a campaign to end world poverty.
launch/mount a search (= start a search )
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A massive search was launched for the former soldier.
lead/mount an attack
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The King now prepared to mount an attack on Granada.
mount/launch an expedition (= plan, organize, and begin an expedition )
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Ornithologists are mounting an expedition to the island in order to study the birds.
stage/mount/launch a coup (= attempt one )
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Later that year, the rebels staged an unsuccessful coup.
take/make/mount a stand (against sth)
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We have to take a stand against racism.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
assault
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The police mounted an early-morning assault on his office, and Mr Bucaram came running out with his hands up.
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Jones mounted a quick two-fisted assault and the title changed hands in those brief, dramatic seconds.
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The idea of secular power in itself meant little before the propagandists of the eleventh-century papal reform mounted their assault on it.
attack
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Three men had mounted an incompetent attack on Trent at Bacalar.
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Prevention is quiet, but politicians who mount all-out attacks on symptoms generate great publicity.
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Instead, the Republicans are expected to mount legal attacks on the environmental measures.
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He then turned on the assembled crowd and mounted a scathing verbal attack on them.
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North overcame the West 2-0 rather more easily, West hardly mounting a worthwhile attack .
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No Soviet figure, let alone such a prominent one, had ever mounted such an attack in the Western press.
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They said the case was prejudiced by a campaign by the Communist party to mount a political attack on Fiat.
bid
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However, if we continue to have a milder climate, it could mount a takeover bid in the garden.
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Conservative Washington commentator Patrick Buchanan, 58, is a perennial contender, having mounted losing bids in 1992 and this year.
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They would rather mount their own bid .
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A crucial factor upon which it will depend is the speed at which management-employee buy-out teams can mount bids .
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The fans are mounting their own bid for a voice in the game.
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Tomkins shares fell 7p to 276p on fears it is planning to mount a bid .
campaign
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A £1 million campaign had been mounted against pro-field sports candidates.
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At length, criticism of the Smokey Bear campaign began to mount .
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A very much smaller advertising campaign was therefore mounted in the press and on commercial television.
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I shall call him Jack, the man we watched slowly disintegrate as the excitement of the campaign mounted .
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Such a campaign should be mounted by the Home Office and not left simply to chief constables.
challenge
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It costs many hundreds of thousands to mount a challenge like this.
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Above all, the Arts and Crafts movement mounted a moral challenge to the modern project.
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Today they were given approval to mount a High Court Challenge over the coroner's conduct.
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Moving quickly to mount the strongest possible challenge for the seat long held by Sen.
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Also Tuesday, opposition leaders said they will mount a new challenge to riot police blocking protest marches.
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We were a shot over in the second round and I began to wonder whether he would be mounting a serious challenge .
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It did not mount a sustained challenge against globally-organised capitalism, concentrated state power or even prevailing discrimination against homosexuals.
debt
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Small debts could rapidly mount up and begin to exert intolerable pressure on the relationship between husband and wife. 1.
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And as debt mounts up, so too do the debt interest payments.
effort
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He mounted the slope with effort , breathing hard.
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And leaders of both parties have been discouraging their rank-and-file from mounting other efforts to challenge the committee recommendation.
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To mount a significant space effort takes decades.
evidence
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But there is no evidence that he mounted a critique of the position in which women were placed in his society.
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Indirect evidence of mounting demographic pressure is also provided by the steady destruction of the forests.
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But evidence is mounting that Ecstasy can cause permanent brain damage.
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Although the evidence was mounting that leprosy was contagious, the view was not unanimously held.
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The report investigated seven cases in detail, and in four of them said there was sufficient evidence to mount a prosecution.
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The two probes were merged as evidence of misspent funds mounted .
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Introduction Evidence has mounted that the incidence of childhood leukaemia can be increased by population mixing, particularly in a rural area.
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No one knew by whom but the circumstantial evidence seemed to be mounting up.
exhibition
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To mark the completion of the inventory, the Museum is mounting an exhibition which runs until 19 July.
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From time to time, though, he would mount an exhibition .
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The director Peter Volkwein plans to mount exhibitions and encourage symposia, discussions and concerts of concrete music.
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A decision to mount temporary, changing exhibitions should help resolve this problem.
horse
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A groan burst from his lips as he mounted his horse , and for a second the world swam before his eyes.
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Russell mounted his horse , rode off, and rode back at full gallop toward the trailer.
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Sharpe wearily mounted his fresh horse .
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Quickly the king's son mounted his horse again and rode back over forty-nine kingdoms.
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He had mounted the Dragoon's horse and was leading the tired mare by her reins.
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Knight, mounting his horse , wearing chain mail of the type developed from eastern sources during Barbarossa's reign.
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Scathach led the way to the gate, pulled it down again and mounted his own horse .
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Now, when you mount a horse , you simply push your boot in to the stirrup.
operation
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Officers mounted the operation to compile evidence against seven men from around the North-East allegedly involved in the conspiracy.
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The next morning, we mounted another operation .
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I'd naively thought they could mount some low-profile operation to catch Andy watching his own funeral.
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But, on the second day, the police mounted a paramilitary-style operation to clear the entrance forcibly.
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They may experience rather more difficulty in mounting a similar operation against Kilkenny, though.
pavement
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The car mounted a pavement , struck a wall, hit the children and smashed into a lamppost.
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It mounted a pavement , smashed a lamp-post and ended up on its roof in the middle of the road.
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The woman suffered head injuries after she was mowed down by a car which mounted the pavement .
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I swung Armstrong to the right and mounted the pavement on my side, not more than twenty feet from him.
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With the scream of a falling bomb the car mounted the pavement and crossed it on to the road the other side.
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The pursuer threw himself aside as the vehicle mounted the pavement , slamming into a lamp-post.
pressure
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Meanwhile, the pressure to drop Hick mounts .
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This danger, and with it speculative pressures , mounts each time doubts arise that the Maastricht treaty will be ratified.
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The news leaked out last weekend, and pressure has mounted on the justice minister, Oliviero Diliberto, to investigate.
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Last night pressure was mounting on Buckingham Palace to officially confirm or deny the claims.
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The sense of pressure was mounting .
production
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It will mount productions in West End theatres, and hopes to sign star actors to short-term contracts.
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He promised to mount a production of one of our choices.
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It didn't work, and we're going to mount another production before spring of next year.
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The firm is aware of the problem and will fit rubber-mounted bars on production models.
protest
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Angela Phillips, 1998 daring to mount street protests against the sending of their menfolk into war zones.
search
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He phoned an animal helpline, which got the Devon moor's rangers to mount a search .
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Seventy five officers - some armed - mounted a search .
stair
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He crossed the landing and mounted the narrow stairs to the attics.
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Sometime in the night Katie wandered upstairs, and Nadal followed, mounting the stairs silently.
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In the end I gave in and reluctantly mounted the narrow stairs .
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Once under drugs, granny rose from her ground-floor death bed and with uncontrollable strength began to mount the stairs .
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In a lull, she drifted up to see to the babies, but misjudged mounting the stair .
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He began to mount the uncarpeted stairs .
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He sighed deeply then mounted the stairs and looked around him slowly.
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As Big Ben struck two little Alistair mounted the stairs .
tension
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But if tensions mount and interest rates rise, the cost of non-interest-bearing deposits would rise in parallel.
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As tension between his parents mounted , Scott, who was then about three, began to get more belligerent and combative.
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They were running through thickly forested country, and tension began to mount in the car.
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As the tension mounted , Mr Newhouse himself began firing people with little warning.
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As the tension mounted , Mal Donaghy and Le Saux were booked for rash challenges.
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A crowd formed. Tension mounted .
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List the particular circumstances which cause frustration and stressful tension to mount .
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The predominant sensation is one of tension , which steadily mounts until it becomes unbearable.
wall
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Ample space for large breakfast table. Wall mounted central heating controls.
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One built-in meter cupboard. Wall mounted electric heater.
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The controls of Deborah's machinery were wall mounted , it was Geoffrey himself who had designed this.
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Power points. Wall mounted electric heater.
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Secondary double glazed window with views over the golf course. wall mounted electric heater.
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Built-in airing cupboard. Wall mounted electric heater.
■ VERB
begin
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Once under drugs, granny rose from her ground-floor death bed and with uncontrollable strength began to mount the stairs.
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At length, criticism of the Smokey Bear campaign began to mount .
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This little group begins to mount a hill.
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The costs had begun to mount significantly by 1975.
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They were running through thickly forested country, and tension began to mount in the car.
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He began to mount the uncarpeted stairs.
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Twelve rocks, well rounded from previous use, began to mount above each other in a crazy mushroom shape.
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The other factor was public opinion, and pressure from opposition groups began to mount .
continue
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In addition we will continue to mount major specials to ensure the big issues of the day are thoroughly explained and debated.
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Even the lag in educational attainment that continued to mount from the late 1970s did not account for the differences.
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Lack of Administrative Communication Job anxieties within the entire contingent continued , and dissatisfaction mounted .
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Their frustration continued to mount , prompting the March demonstration.
start
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Fuel costs were really starting to mount up, so I felt I had to contribute something.
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But as the General Election approaches, problems start to mount .
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Problems started to mount for the G8 leaders in the 1990s, but they failed to respond to the challenge.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Anxiety about job security mounted at the plant after profits fell by 68%.
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As the dispute continues, tension is mounting on the border between the two countries.
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Can you help Shelly mount ?
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Costs on the project have been mounting up steadily.
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Farmers' anxiety over the drought has mounted.
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He mounted the pony and rode off.
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Newlin is mounting a campaign against drunk drivers.
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Reporters shouted questions as Mayor Bradley mounted the steps of City Hall.
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She mounted and rode off.
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The Tokyo prosecutor's office rarely mounts a case it cannot win.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Haig and Kendall scrambled into their kit as they mounted the engine.
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Some guys mounted extended laterals, extended driving sticks.
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The crossover is mounted behind the terminal panel at the top rear of the cabinet.
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The opposition mounted, but Johnson was probably right in asserting that its strength was overstated.
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Westman says he is genuinely optimistic about our ability to solve our mounting social problems.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After a while, with their mounts winded, they halted.
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Dimly making out figures, he leant forward on his mount , and a volley of fire tore him to the ground.
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He cursed, and spurred his long-suffering mount onwards again.
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Her unfortunate mount was shocked enough without the sound of any loud voices.
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I don't want them stabling their mounts here, it'd be too conspicuous.
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Solis was lucky to pick up the mount .
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While the inside pairs of animals gently rise and fall, the outside ring mounts are proudly stationary.