adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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The scene was more reminiscent of the nineteenth century than the twenty-first.
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Why had such disputes reverted to a pattern of disorder more reminiscent of the nineteenth than twentieth century?
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Meg herself is more reminiscent of Deborah Kerr on acid.
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The letters he wrote to her are more reminiscent of his earliest letters than anything else that he wrote as archbishop.
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In other respects too, he is strongly reminiscent of Kant.
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The shape of the cheeks - if slightly too reminiscent of a cadaver - had a certain elegance.
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It was too reminiscent of the way John Butler had ended Portrait of Billie.
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To Ken, it was all too reminiscent of his own life in the Army, but he enjoyed the filming.
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The massive pillars of its nave are very reminiscent of the Norman splendours of Durham cathedral.
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The technique is very reminiscent of that used by the amphibians' far distant and antique cousin, the lungfish.
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There is something in this pattern of behaviour that is very reminiscent of some addictive or compulsive behaviours.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Those were the days," agreed Barrow with a reminiscent sigh.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario positively demolished her opponents with a ruthlessness reminiscent of Navratilova's great rival of the 1980's, Chris Evert.
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Experts see the rise in borrowing as disturbingly reminiscent of the credit boom in the 1980s.
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For Oldenberg it was reminiscent of Tatlin's tower and should have incorporated a telescopic element.
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Households in the Coventry area report that they are being subjected to intimidation reminiscent of this time.
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Our understanding of development is at a stage reminiscent of genetics in the 1930s.
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The boy had grown sturdy and handsome, his green eyes and dark hair so reminiscent of his father.
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Their jumbled stories are reminiscent of the black-bordered figures typical of so-called Figuration Libre.