noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
loan shark
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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But with them comes the threat of larger predators, namely the great white shark .
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Human beings have no predators except great white sharks and one another, but they have lots of parasites.
white
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The reefs rise, luxurious, from the deeper sandy bed where manta and white tipped shark roam.
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But with them comes the threat of larger predators, namely the great white shark .
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Human beings have no predators except great white sharks and one another, but they have lots of parasites.
■ NOUN
card
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The titles are stacking up like the poker chips of a red-hot card shark .
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Where were the saloons and the gunslingers and the professional card sharks ?
loan
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It originally meant the pledging of the coming rice crop to local loan sharks .
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As a class, professional golfers are swell well-scrubbed chaps and chaplets, infinitely preferable to professional wrestlers or professional loan sharks .
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This compares with some loan sharks who can charge in excess of 10,000 percent!
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In Ireland, the coverage of unions is now so extensive that the loan sharks have been almost driven out of business.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
jump the shark
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was only a small shark about three feet long so I ignored it and began the survey.
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The currents helped him, but those currents are filled with sharks.
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The skyline, from any part of this magical plateau, was toothed like the jaw of a shark .
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The whales favour large prey, including squid, cod and sharks.
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This time its offerings include a dead shark floating in a tank of formaldehyde.
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Unlike sharks, they don't waste energy preventing themselves from sinking.
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Yes, beaming, grinning like a shark .
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You got your freezing water, your sharks and your hepatitis.