noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
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Each manoeuvre in their rearguard action has taken them further away from intuitive notions about that exciting enterprise referred to as science.
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Let us try a rearguard action to confine its scope to peripheral cases.
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With their captain and inspiration, Roy Aitken, suspended, Saints seemed to have come prepared to fight a rearguard action .
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The troops remaining in the islands fought a bitter rearguard action .
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On machines however, a tough rearguard action was fought by the employers.
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From an Arsenal rearguard action the ball would, seemingly inevitably, reach Alex.
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Sefton were left to fight a valiant rearguard action after losing half their batting cheaply.
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Such men found themselves, however, fighting what became all too clearly a rearguard action .
■ VERB
fight
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With their captain and inspiration, Roy Aitken, suspended, Saints seemed to have come prepared to fight a rearguard action.
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They are now fighting a rearguard battle and losing.
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Sefton were left to fight a valiant rearguard action after losing half their batting cheaply.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From an Arsenal rearguard action the ball would, seemingly inevitably, reach Alex.
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Let us try a rearguard action to confine its scope to peripheral cases.
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Oldham's attack had a fruitless afternoon against a Rovers' rearguard in which Kevin Moran was outstanding.
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On machines however, a tough rearguard action was fought by the employers.
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The best that propaganda could do was to emphasise the courage of Leonidas and his rearguard .
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The troops remaining in the islands fought a bitter rearguard action.
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They arrived too late to save Praag but did destroy part of the Chaos army's rearguard .
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With their captain and inspiration, Roy Aitken, suspended, Saints seemed to have come prepared to fight a rearguard action.