adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
seemingly unrelated (= not seeming to be connected or related at all )
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The police were investigating three seemingly unrelated murders.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
apparently
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There was no clear policy on this matter, only a series of apparently unrelated initiatives.
completely
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There are leaders and opinion makers on the staff whose power of influence is completely unrelated to their official status.
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In fact, many of the non-anti-social symptoms in childhood seemed completely unrelated to adult psychiatric status.
quite
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Father even allows quite unrelated youngsters to join the family group if they will take on some of the work of baby-carrying.
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The signalling properties of the polarizing region are now known to be quite unrelated to cell death which is a separate process.
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For both of them the landscape in which they now stood was quite unrelated to any of this.
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But in many cases the castle is quite unrelated to other castles.
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I had another reason as well, though quite unrelated to painting.
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The other appeared quite unrelated to it.
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Fortunately another quite unrelated series of compounds was found to alleviate depression.
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Deflection eye-spots are found in a wide variety of quite unrelated species.
seemingly
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Changes to any part of the system may make it necessary to change other seemingly unrelated components.
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Three seemingly unrelated items came together in a way...
totally
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The nature of an object can not be established through a means of knowledge totally unrelated to it.
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Some relate this to the security of a university appointment, with career steps usually totally unrelated to research achievement.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Blue-eyed cats are deaf because those at first sight unrelated characters share an embryonic pathway.
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Despite the economic problems and some unrelated political problems of the 1960s, the country remained a relatively prosperous one.
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Eighty unrelated controls, 61 patients with gastric ulcer, and 57 patients with duodenal ulcer were studied.
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Father even allows quite unrelated youngsters to join the family group if they will take on some of the work of baby-carrying.
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Many consultancies welcome work experience in a field unrelated to public relations.
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She is also remembered because she was painted by Velázquez, although this is not unrelated to the family tree.
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The technique is really one of creating harmony in two separate and unrelated layers.
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These 2500 season seats will offer those possessing them the option to hold the same seat for unrelated events.