noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
neutral territory/waters (= land or sea that is not controlled by any of the countries involved in a war )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dangerous
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Returning to the original metaphor of this chapter, the patient is taken into dangerous and unexplored territories of inner space.
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It is a scouting reconnaissance into un-known and potentially dangerous territory .
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Mr. Lawson moves on to what I regard as even more dangerous territory .
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Discussion had ventured into dangerous territory .
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A few big banks have ventured into more dangerous territory .
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Since then he has largely avoided commenting on religion, which his advisers consider dangerous territory .
familiar
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The social work was familiar territory .
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Camp Holloway at Pleiku was familiar territory .
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We open in familiar Grisham territory , in a low-security federal prison.
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Since Michelangelo was an ardent antiquarian, all this will have been familiar territory .
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I was now in more familiar territory .
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Now, we're all very familiar with the territory of trauma.
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They were travelling over familiar territory and life on the march had slipped into a routine.
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All this was familiar territory but as films became more ambitious so there emerged the possibility of fuller social statement.
hostile
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The deeper forests are virtually hostile territory where few humans venture.
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The North, on the other hand, would have to stretch its supply lines over vast areas of hostile territory .
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He was really on his own now, and in less than two minutes he would be flying over hostile territory .
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Most of our navigation was pure pilotage and dead reckoning over unfamiliar, sometimes hostile territory and some very bad weather.
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They are in forbidding, hostile territory .
neutral
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In this war, there's no neutral territory .
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We chatted noncommittally in the kitchen, neutral territory .
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That was why he had tried to reach Cantor by phone and arrange a meeting in some neutral territory .
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Beginning in the more neutral territory , I ask what leads her to seek incarceration for a kid.
new
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It marked a recovery of lost ground rather than any significant advance to new territory .
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Now each book I write takes me deep into new territory .
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Displaced by High Speed Trains, much of their final year was remarkably spent on new territory including York-Liverpool runs.
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Encryption and digital signatures are techniques to expand the dynamics of trust into a new territory .
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A new territory lay here, in which she must live.
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Parasitic behavior itself is a new territory for organisms to make a living in.
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These steps into new territory were too big and too risky to be undertaken by individual merchants.
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This, like most of Basingstoke itself, is new territory .
occupied
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By contrast opinion in the occupied territories concerning these other players was hardening rather than softening.
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In order to ensure the support of the nationalist parties Shamir increased settlement funding, including infrastructural development of the occupied territories .
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Autonomy was seen in the occupied territories as a denial of the demand for self-determination, not a step towards it.
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The next day clashes broke out in the occupied territories and Arab workers were prevented from entering Jerusalem.
overseas
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The number of such judicial appointments for overseas territories is considerable.
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In the General Staff's view, instabilities in Britain's overseas territories were likely to grow rather than decline as Sandys hoped.
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Finally, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council hears appeals from a very limited number of overseas territories .
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For example the administration of overseas territories has been accomplished by means of orders in council issued by virtue of the royal prerogative.
uncharted
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Gradually the performance builds into something extraordinary, a gallant voyage into uncharted territory .
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There are no road signs in uncharted territory , no footprints to follow in places where no one has ventured before.
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As many media workers would acknowledge, professional ethics in church-related media work are almost uncharted territory .
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I clenched my teeth and closed my eyes as the plane headed straight into very uncertain, very uncharted territory indeed.
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The present study is immensely rich in every way, and is an impressive foray into largely uncharted territory .
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The financial system may be about to enter uncharted territory .
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Prosecution lawyers face a daunting obstacle-race across uncharted territory .
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This gap between children's knowledge about what endangers their health and how they use this knowledge is largely uncharted territory .
unfamiliar
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This was their one mistake, this entering on unfamiliar territory - his territory.
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Every large event, personal or shared, takes us into unfamiliar territory .
virgin
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As far as Labour is concerned, this is virgin territory .
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Helena some years earlier to map the stars of the southern hemisphere-virtually virgin territory on the landscape of the night.
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Working on what in effect was virgin territory for customs officers our crews produced fantastic results in the earlier days.
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General Booth's Salvationist doctrine was a notable example, recommending mass emigration from the city slums to virgin colonial territories .
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I mean, this was still virgin territory , there were no tube lines running to this part of the frontier.
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Of course, our rummage crews were working on more or less virgin territory , where no customs rummage crew had been before.
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Very other, and very alien. Virgin territory .
■ NOUN
enemy
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They were flying steadily eastwards, deeper into enemy territory .
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It later was further attenuated by including anyone killed or wounded in enemy territory , excluding the requirement of combat.
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The Labour movement might not be a home for lesbians and gays, but it was certainly no longer enemy territory .
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Bosnia, it has been determined by some one, is considered enemy territory .
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She remains for him, even in modernity, enemy territory .
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The prize may be to seize the enemy territory , but that is a small reward for so dangerous a business.
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It was about laying waste enemy territory , about the pursuit of a retreating army, about sieges.
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No army would advance into enemy territory and carelessly leave behind it important pockets of resistance.
home
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With these exceptions, troops lived in barracks, and certainly the officers were rarely posted to their home territories .
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They now have rocks galore, probably the oldest rocks ever examined, sitting on their home territory .
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Unlike most forms of home territory , however, Ends are not colonized in opposition to authority.
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The second half of the course was held on home territory - in the Kemps Hotel, close to the oilfield.
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That was stardom and Kenneth Williams was a star, even if his appeal was mostly on home territory .
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Florence publishers have turned their attention almost exclusively to their home territory .
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They bring into focus the dilemmas facing anthropologists who do research in their home territory .
■ VERB
defend
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One of my pairs is actually reluctant to spawn if there is no-one from whom to defend their territory .
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Each was thus able to become a robust and self-aware entity, ready to defend its territory and its independence.
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Defended flowers can therefore be exploited more efficiently and it can pay a sunbird to defend a territory .
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A large mink can also travel further and defend a larger territory .
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For the rest of the year they wander their home ranges or defend their territories against all-comers.
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The third strategy involves intermediate-sized males behaving opportunistically: they call from potential egg-laying sites but do not defend territories .
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At the end of the summer, he must seek out and defend a territory .
enter
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Young Arsenal supporters sometimes disembark from trains south of the river and enter Chelsea territory across Wandsworth Bridge.
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Intermittent intervals of moonlight would mean not having to use flashlights, when he and Larsen entered the enemy's territory .
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The violence is the worst since the K-For peacekeepers entered the territory last June.
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To deny the reality of the divine love is to enter the dark territory where it can not be found.
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The financial system may be about to enter uncharted territory .
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For the first time the Soviet Government allowed foreign disaster relief organisations to enter its territory on a massive scale.
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It does not appear to be particularly aggressive but will chase off any fish that enter the territory surrounding its flowerpot.
establish
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Within this area, several males - smaller and less gaudy than the females - establish much smaller territories .
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This last piece of information was particularly important for establishing how much territory an increasing tiger population in any area would need.
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In larger tanks the fish will establish their own territories , and little more than the odd display will be seen.
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I have tried to establish my own territory in the attic, outside the country of my ancestors.
hold
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The second half of the course was held on home territory - in the Kemps Hotel, close to the oilfield.
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At night coyotes emerge to yip and yowl, raising their vocal flag proclaiming wilderness still holds territory deep within the city.
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Although they did not succeed in holding much territory , they proved their ability to penetrate deep into SOC-held territory.
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Two pairs hold territory on the island.
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Despite the military superiority of the government forces, the rebels continued to hold on to territory in the south.
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Often, the winner must hold a territory against his ardent rivals.
invade
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In short, the comic poet is invading the territory of the tragic muse.
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The tide turned when Tamerlane invaded their territory and in 1398 successfully raided Delhi, and sacked it without mercy.
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She has, in some way, invaded my territory .
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A stoat had invaded the territory .
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A corollary is that these fans derive pleasurable excitement from going on away trips and invading the territories of opposing fans.
lose
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Davies first confirmed that intruders do usually lose contests over territories .
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Although Venice lost territory elsewhere, including the island of Crete, there was little change in Dalmatia.
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Government forces have made spectacular gains, only to lose back territory to lightning Tiger offensives.
mark
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The cities and even rural areas have been divided between these well-armed rival factions, who mark their territories with graffiti.
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There is no marking territory , no signal, no power thing.
occupy
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Foundations of Power: Empire Whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system.
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They munch native marine life, mow down food supplies and occupy territory , Carlton said.
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Meanwhile violence continued to leave scars across the occupied territories .
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The accident touched off a wave of rioting that spread throughout the occupied territories .
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The resulting competition probably causes the animals to occupy small but adequate territories which are vigorously defended by a monogamous pair.
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It is not only the breeding pair that occupies the territory around a nest.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dangerous ground/territory
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You're on dangerous ground when you talk politics with Ed.
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Discussion had ventured into dangerous territory.
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Here we are on dangerous ground, though.
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I release my safety belt to hold you, dangerous ground, ground where my feet have wings of flame.
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It is a scouting reconnaissance into un-known and potentially dangerous territory.
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Mr. Lawson moves on to what I regard as even more dangerous territory.
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Probably because for Marc it was dangerous ground.
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Second, that any official who ignores them is on dangerous ground.
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They must also enter the dangerous ground of anticipating the techniques which might be available in the future.
on neutral ground/territory
poach on sb's territory/preserve
uncharted waters/territory/area etc
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And instead of heading off into uncharted waters, Shyamalan has positively invited comparisons with his previous opus.
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Any progress to be made in this almost uncharted area would be of great significance to communication and those who apply it.
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Clearly the 49ers are sailing in uncharted waters.
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Gradually the performance builds into something extraordinary, a gallant voyage into uncharted territory.
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I clenched my teeth and closed my eyes as the plane headed straight into very uncertain, very uncharted territory indeed.
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Not uncommonly, studies of this kind which relate to relatively uncharted areas raise more issues than they solve.
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Other career seekers are more interested in venturing into uncharted waters.
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There are no road signs in uncharted territory, no footprints to follow in places where no one has ventured before.
virgin territory
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As far as Labour is concerned, this is virgin territory.
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Helena some years earlier to map the stars of the southern hemisphere-virtually virgin territory on the landscape of the night.
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I mean, this was still virgin territory, there were no tube lines running to this part of the frontier.
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Of course, our rummage crews were working on more or less virgin territory, where no customs rummage crew had been before.
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The internet is no longer virgin territory.
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Working on what in effect was virgin territory for customs officers our crews produced fantastic results in the earlier days.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a salesman's territory
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Chile is a country filled with unexplored territory .
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Colombian guerrillas had reportedly been operating in Venezuelan territory .
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Ecevit campaigned in May 1991 to have foreign troops removed from Turkish territory .
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His plane was shot down over enemy territory .
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Many birds will attack other birds that enter their territory .
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Miller had accidentally crossed into Iraqi territory and was arrested for spying.
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The antelope will control and defend its territory .
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The island of Guam is a US territory .
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The negotiations will be held on neutral territory .
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U.S. territories and possessions
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We crossed the river into enemy territory .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the world-famous San Diego Zoo, the animals will be sharing their territory with wandering herds of Republicans.
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But the Simpson case was territory like no other.
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In territory subjugated by the Union Army, slavery was protected and enforced, just as it had been before the war.
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It thinks global economic growth will come in this year at 4.7 %, well into boom territory .
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Often it makes sense to divide a territory into segments radiating outwards, with the salesperson's home being at the centre.
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The Frankish army secured most of the northern territories, and the Slavs kept their word to Charles.
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These nests will shortly be visited by the female in whose larger territory the various males have set up home.