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Recent Examples of collocation
The collocation of them is not unusual.
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New York Times, 30 July 2021
The risk of these writers’ style, with their short chapters and darting insights, is randomness, and sometimes this book, whatever its thematic claims, seems to consist of what has come under the author’s eye, an arbitrary collocation.
—Charles Finch, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
New York Times, 30 July 2021
The risk of these writers’ style, with their short chapters and darting insights, is randomness, and sometimes this book, whatever its thematic claims, seems to consist of what has come under the author’s eye, an arbitrary collocation.
—Charles Finch, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for collocation
Noun
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So much of the pro-wrestling job is not the wrestling part but cutting promos, the phrase used for presenting the audience with one’s storyline using words, not chops.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Apr. 2025
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Typically, these phrases should be taken with a grain of salt.—
Kristine Gill,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Ultimately, Andrews and his actors find Chekhov by abandoning the paraphernalia of the writer’s universe and groping, in their own idiom, across a perilously empty stage, toward one another.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
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Which is fitting for a composer who, even when developing a homegrown idiom of his own, was criticized for sounding too European.—
Joshua Barone,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Confucius says—an old-fashioned locution, perhaps, but appropriate here—never to take interest in feats of strength.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2024
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That archly strangled locution, the ceaseless scorn: the vendor’s voice nags at the former Dean Street boy.—
Rachel Cusk,
Harper's Magazine,
27 Sep. 2023
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“Collocation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collocation. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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