adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
nothing remotely resembling sth (= nothing at all like something or as good as something )
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Nothing remotely resembling a cure has been found.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
interested
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He wasn't remotely interested in me and brought Philippa some goat's cheese that looked like Tutankhamun's brain.
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Yet it never entered her head for a moment to think that Prince Charles was remotely interested in romance.
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Taking all this into account, we have to ask why the extraterrestrials should be remotely interested in seeding distant planets.
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There was no way Guy Sterne could be remotely interested in her, and as for the other way around ... She shivered.
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Why would Wilko be even remotely interested in a complete waste of space like St-wart.
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And a force that isn't remotely interested in us as people ... as individuals.
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Neither seems remotely interested in the characters they invent as anything more than reflections of authorial narcissism.
possible
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Ismail Belig's dating of the former appointment, though remotely possible , is certainly questionable.
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I have difficulty believing that the former is remotely possible .
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Was it feasible, was it remotely possible , that the mutation had some sort of driving force?
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Reluctantly, at the end of the exercise, Ellen saw that only four of the items were even remotely possible .
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Life-ways are opened up which are not remotely possible , even in analogous terms, to any other species.
■ VERB
control
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Sandia expects to be able to remotely control the devices.
resemble
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It should not be imagined, however, that the newborn Earth remotely resembled the world in which we live today.
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In the 1990s alone, some 2 million anglers have fished here without hooking anything even remotely resembling this record fish.
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I never want to go through anything even remotely resembling our marriage ever again.
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There is no human society that remotely resembles this particular pattern.
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Nowhere inside our brains or eyes has any neuroscientist ever found anything remotely resembling our constant everyday experience of light.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Most of the low-alcohol brews taste only remotely like beer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Firstly, it is not the case that the evil spirits of the New Testament are remotely similar to animist spirits.
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He wanted her every day and no girl he had met since had remotely matched up to her.
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No job in civilian life is remotely as dangerous in terms of accidents as the wartime military.
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Reluctantly, at the end of the exercise, Ellen saw that only four of the items were even remotely possible.
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Stalin, let alone Mao, has never achieved remotely comparable diabolic status.
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There was nothing remotely new in this.