noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
raise
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They figure this was a puritanical overreaction to a handful of innocent pictures and claim it raises the chilling specter of censorship.
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Failure in Chechnya raises the specter that other independent-minded regions could become problems once again.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Failure in Chechnya raises the specter that other independent-minded regions could become problems once again.
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How does a specter go about making his confession?
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I wish you could have seen the faces of the jury as the awful specter of the future unfolded before them.
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Opponents painted a more apocalyptic picture, warning of foreign landowners and even invoking the specter of civil war.
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Potentially problematic was the specter of defense witnesses placing John Doe No. 2 in the conspiracy and confusing jurors.
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The specter , north and south, of the black face, real and corporeal, owing nothing to burnt cork.
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The buildings were only specters glimpsed through the thick white veils the air had become.
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They figure this was a puritanical overreaction to a handful of innocent pictures and claim it raises the chilling specter of censorship.