noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
raise
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The cultural move from an autonomous and independent sculpture back to the public sphere inevitably raises the spectre of popular culture.
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The attack has raised the spectre of another war between ice-cream operators in Glasgow.
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The prospect of such telecoms competition raises the spectre of intervention by government or the courts.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
raise the spectre of sth
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The attack has raised the spectre of another war between ice-cream operators in Glasgow.
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The cultural move from an autonomous and independent sculpture back to the public sphere inevitably raises the spectre of popular culture.
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The prospect of such telecoms competition raises the spectre of intervention by government or the courts.
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Trevor Street had raised the spectre of the Bedford-St Pancras line.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The spectre is reputed to be that of Frances Culpepper, daughter of Lord John Freschville.
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They say that the spectres of the murdered children walk through the grounds at night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the spectre of money laundering looms.
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Another spectre of his too-vivid memory rose up to tempt him.
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But the spectre of delivering a speech brown-nosing the teachers jammed her imagination.
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Loneliness flooded her like the bone-chilling spectre of the damned.
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Once firmly embarked on the slow-growth road, the United States can not avoid the ominous spectre of social and economic decay.
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The attack has raised the spectre of another war between ice-cream operators in Glasgow.
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The cultural move from an autonomous and independent sculpture back to the public sphere inevitably raises the spectre of popular culture.
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The prospect of such telecoms competition raises the spectre of intervention by government or the courts.