noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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military
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They never campaigned for military preparedness .
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National defense constitutes over one-fourth of the Federal budget and underscores the high cost of military preparedness .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Military preparedness is important to prevent war.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any falling short in doing so reflects more on the teaching than on the students' preparedness to respond.
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I am not opposed to the accepted concept of preparedness .
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It means preparedness to experiment with new and possibly riskier arrangements.
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Military preparedness , Augustine said, should not be based on the wishes of diplomats.
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They never campaigned for military preparedness .
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This, of course, was the accepted version of the preparedness theory.
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We should have a detached preparedness for mystical states and no anxiety for them.