noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a vague idea/notion
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The students only had a vague idea of what they were supposed to do.
dismiss a notion formal (= idea )
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The Minister dismissed the notion that he had cut petrol tax because of the forthcoming by-election.
romantic notion/view/idea etc
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romantic notions about becoming a famous actress
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Like many New Yorkers, he had a romantic image of country life.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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general
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In general terms, notions of selfhood came under review.
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Like the Confucians, the Taoists reinterpreted for their own use the general notions of yin, yang, and tao.
romantic
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But I'd had my suspicions and didn't share his romantic notion of a farewell from anonymous royalty.
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Of course, it takes a lot more than a romantic notion to open and sustain a successful restaurant.
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De Gaulle's romantic notions were balanced by a harsh realism.
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It is a gut-level response, based on romantic notions about college sports.
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His romantic notions of Oscar Wilde are fully acted out while he stays in this condition.
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That romantic notion held sway over me, and probably delayed my perception of Clarisa as some one with a medical problem.
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There is, however, a refusal of the Romantic notion of an ultimate resolution of culture.
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However, there is the problem of the romantic notion of pure art devoid of social responsibility.
traditional
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Therefore many traditional notions about rural decline have to be modified to take account of the remarkable turn-around in demographic trends.
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This new age of anonymity and adopted identity portends great impact on our traditional notions of discourse and protected speech.
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On the substance of a Bill of Rights: yours goes further than traditional notions .
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It is hard to discard traditional notions of what young people need to succeed in the economy.
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Is it time, therefore, to abandon the traditional notion of ownership by, and accountability to, shareholders alone?
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Woman-centred psychology is affected by the traditional psychological notion that women's femininity rests on their bodies.
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Recently the life habits of the giants have been looked at in a way that disproves most of these traditional notions .
vague
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It's a vague enough notion , that something unauthorized was then loaded under cover of the dark.
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Most of us maintain vague notions of justice, but its precise meaning escapes us until we are deprived of it.
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She had no paper qualifications, no special skills and only a vague notion that she wanted to work with children.
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He must have harbored the vague notion that I could reassure him.
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In which case a researcher's task is to translate this rather abstract and vague notion into some operational form.
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Gradually vague notions of a career in journalism were forming in my head.
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He finds himself evaluated by the correspondingly vague notion of competence.
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At least the first time, she'd only a vague notion of what might lie ahead.
very
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Not only is space one, but the very notion that there might be different, unconnected, spaces is really unintelligible.
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Furthermore, the very notion of self-determination implies the need to exclude any outside pressure on a country.
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They intrude into our personal relationships, govern our patterns of consumption, inform our very notion of human worth.
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The very notion , however, ran counter to the sodden, melancholy, and yet enduring spirit of the Reach.
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A hint she had been blind to because the very notion of suicide was so antithetical to her own nature.
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Indeed, the very notion of student access implies curricular foundations.
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Steiner's ludicrous generalizations stem inpart from the very notion of defining cultures and history in terms of a sensibility.
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I shall suggest that there is a sense in which the very notion of a homosexual sensibility is a contradiction in terms.
whole
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The whole plastic notion of a pop star begins to ring the bells of truth.
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But what about the whole notion of for ever?
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Now the company is taking the whole notion one step further, embracing Internet technology both internally and for its client services.
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But in classrooms and schools that start with student interest, the whole notion of coverage changes.
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Moreover the whole notion of testing employees is an invasion of privacy.
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That turns the whole notion of authority, and accountability, on its head.
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Such an approach can bring the whole notion of assessment into disrepute, as well as misunderstand particular individuals.
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To him, the whole notion would have been cruel, to turn such matters over to the rank and file.
■ VERB
accept
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Dalzell, however, simply did not accept this notion , at least not in a federal habeas hearing.
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Even some former skeptics said that probably 95 percent of experts now accept the notion .
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The Mass-Observation reports of 1942 and 1944 indicate one group of well informed people who accepted this notion of intelligence.
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Burke will not accept the notion that taste is some separate faculty of the mind, some sixth, intuitive sense.
based
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The household All present housing policy is based on the notion of the household.
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It is based on the notion that a physically powerful person is likely to be a dummy.
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The approach was based on notions of co-ordination and co-operation.
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It is a gut-level response, based on romantic notions about college sports.
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This omission, which now seems curious, was based upon the conventional notion of the organism as respondent.
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But such objections are based on a distorted notion of organizational success and how it is achieved.
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The claim is based presumably on the notion that the new charging system will be simpler.
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In general, the hierarchy of prestige based on notions of ritual purity was mirrored by the hierarchy of power.
challenge
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From time to time evidence appears which challenges received notions of the truth.
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Advanced computers are even beginning to challenge long-held notions about intelligence and thought.
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This finding challenges the notion that carbohydrate malabsorption is uncommon in patients with chronic pancreatitis.
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Beyond these formal structures, the folks at Thayer challenge yet one more notion that often shapes the structures of schooling.
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Anti-debt campaigners in the South are urging their counterparts in the North to challenge the official notion of poverty reduction.
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But lately some researchers are challenging the notion that memory loss is inevitable.
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Here he challenges the notion that practice is activity and not thought.
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Some challenge the notion of corporate culture as the primary culprit.
dismiss
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Novick dismisses this notion without difficulty: the plan was considered, and found to be impractical.
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There are some who dismiss the notion that results from the East will have much effect on California.
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Regretfully, Gwendolen dismissed the notion .
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Horton dismisses any notion that his students are being bribed to stay in school.
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After initially reading the manuscript, David Kaczynski said he dismissed the notion that his brother was the Unabomber.
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Florin dismissed any notion of martial law-like conditions prevailing.
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Such accounts dismiss any notion of reproduction and treat consumption as wholly, as opposed to relatively, autonomous.
reject
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On 18 January 1956 the Committee's Joint Declaration rejected the notion that integration should be confined to only six countries.
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First, he rejected the notion that males were indispensable to the rearing of young.
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And we reject Labour's job-destroying notion of a national minimum wage.
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The group approach explicitly rejects the notion that a small elite dominates the resource allocation process.
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But she rejected the notion as he leaned back against the cushions and took a quick swig of his brandy.
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For a moment I considered, but immediately rejected , the notion of leaving Hsu Fu or calling off the expedition.
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It usually rejects the notion of a social system.
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But Gilligan does not, in fact, reject the notion of a rights-based morality.
support
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Sadly, there seems little reason to support the notion .
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More support for that notion came in a separate report today from the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank.
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Indeed, the decoration of these mosaics exhibits a consistency which supports such a notion .
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Clinton said the underlying logic supports the notion that presidents are at least entitled to a temporary deferral of private litigation.
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This observation supports the notion that early, careful attention to the patient's psychosocial concerns is effective and has lasting benefit.
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Sales of chess software would tend to support that notion .
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The holding of regular consultative meetings between heads of parliaments was supported as a compromise notion .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Humans still hold on to the absurd notion that we are the only intelligent beings in the Universe.
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Many widely-held notions about crime have come from the cinema, magazines, or novels.
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Modern society does not always correspond to classical notions of democracy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A decade ago, even the notion of Phoenix as big-time was laughable.
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An analogy can be drawn with the notion of mutations in genetics.
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Even some former skeptics said that probably 95 percent of experts now accept the notion .
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Home is a notion that only the nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
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In the post-war period some democratic elitists detected a major flaw in this notion of bureaucratic rationality.
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The heart of the legal notion of partnership consists in the mutual trust and confidence of the participants.
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Though Centralism comes in many guises and applications, the basic notions that fuel it are remarkably consistent-as are the results.