verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
closely resembles
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a creature that closely resembles a red monkey
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
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W says the material removes resonance and standing waves, reproducing music that more closely resembles the original.
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It operates through receptors whose molecular and physiological properties closely resemble the calcium-mobilizing ryanodine receptors of muscle.
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Emersed and submersed plants closely resemble each other.
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Flaccid, deeply dissected, submerged foliage closely resembling an out-stretched bird's foot.
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It closely resembles E. macrophyllus and like the latter has no pellucid markings in the leaf blades.
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Spinelets are confined to the radial shields in G. arcticus and more closely resemble large granules.
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Patients who have recurrent attacks of gouty arthritis may develop features closely resembling rheumatoid arthritis.
most
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It is in the features of this sociable disposition rather than in societal structure that the chimpanzee most resembles man.
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At daybreak or dusk, the pyramids most resemble the limestone monuments seen by the old explorers.
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BHowever, it is a president Clinton almost never mentions who he resembles most closely -- Lyndon B.. Johnson.
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But the player who most resembled the Becker of old was 31st-ranked Costa.
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Britain's leading wave-jumping event, in its fourth year, is staged in Tiree because the swells most resemble Hawaii's.
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This impressive-looking pocket modem most resembles a Walkman.
much
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Whales and hippos may not much resemble each other nowadays, but retain some hints of kinship.
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It resembled much more one of the helmet faces painted on the skulls in the rack behind me.
often
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Feminist extensions of conventional psychological methodology often resemble more explicitly oppositional programmes for social scientific method.
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Republican conference meetings, the closed-doors strategy sessions, have often resembled revival meetings, said Rep.
remotely
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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.
somewhat
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This is an imposing structure, somewhat resembling in its frontage on two streets the keep of a Norman castle.
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These are extremely small, single-cell structures that somewhat resemble bacteria on Earth.
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Species somewhat resembling that shown are numerous in the Tertiary marine formations, and similar species live today in sandy sea bottoms.
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It is no coincidence that combat soldiers, particularly paratroops, wear camouflage uniforms that somewhat resemble a leopard's spotted coat.
■ NOUN
form
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It should eventually be in a form which resembles the way in which the research will be presented.
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Musical jades were angular in form , resembling carpenters' squares.
pattern
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Not surprisingly these force patterns resemble the pattern of magnetic field lines across the aperture of a quadrupole magnet.
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The Mormon settlement pattern resembled that of earlier Asiatic societies in that each community was engaged in basically the same activities.
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Flight patterns resemble Peregrine and Hobby.
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One minute after mixing this footprint is no longer evident and the pattern resembles that in the control.
respect
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They will in this respect resemble our own rules of etiquette.
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In this respect at least, Mozart resembles his comparably productive contemporary Joseph Haydn.
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A new course in a number of respects resembles a research or development project.
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It inevitably strikes the reader of Out that the main character enters periodically into what in many respects resembles schizophrenia.
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In this respect the gorilla resembles man more than the chimpanzee.
species
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Distantly related species may come to resemble one another closely.
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Such is the method of camouflage in which a species evolves to resemble its background.
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A few species generally resembling this one occur in Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks.
ways
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But man is, in general, sexually dimorphic in ways which do not resemble his ape cousins.
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But the route she took to Washington in many ways resembles the one traveled by first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
■ VERB
begin
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One straightened stream begins to resemble another.
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Salomon Brothers began to resemble the rest of Wall Street.
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Six weeks later, most of its organs are present and its outward appearance begins to resemble that of a baby.
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The hall had suddenly begun to resemble a police station.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gradually it became more institutionalised as something resembling organised diplomatic services emerged.
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In this sense, consciousness resembles breathing, digestion, and so on.
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Starkly primeval, it resembles the head of a giant gorilla!
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The output was a bar graph to show how much the new input resembled each of the ten people.
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The philosopher Scott Buchanan once observed in conversation that science resembles theater.
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To the outsider the movements of a kata resemble a dance routine.
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True believers say the effort resembles cutting-edge, private-sector management at its best.