noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mutual
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She brought Pilade into their bed and refused to send him out and the night was passed in mutual recriminations .
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This is because it is so good at avoiding runs of mutual recrimination .
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The stage was set for years of mutual mistrust and recrimination .
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This, as we have seen, helps to damp down what might otherwise become long and damaging runs of mutual recrimination .
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This means that runs of mutual recrimination are nipped in the bud.
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Hence the need to avoid mutual recriminations , facile accusations and scapegoats.
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We spend the rest of the night in mutual recrimination .
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Instead, there was the dreary return to mutual recrimination .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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We promised each other there would be no recriminations if it didn't work out.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And so began a chain of events, of misunderstandings, laughter, anger, and bitter recrimination .
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In January and February 1985 it collapsed amidst tremendous local recriminations, directed primarily and almost entirely at strikebreakers.
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She brought Pilade into their bed and refused to send him out and the night was passed in mutual recriminations.
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The confessions, recriminations and bubbling bile of this long night's drinking into dawn make for increasingly compulsive viewing.
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The discovery of unfaithfulness is followed by anger and recriminations, anguish and uncertainty.
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This is because it is so good at avoiding runs of mutual recrimination .
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When he struggled to find winners at the start of the season, the cries of gleeful recrimination reached a crescendo.