overwhelming tendency
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoverwhelmingandtendency
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overwhelming
adjective
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈwel.mɪŋ/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwel.mɪŋ/
difficult to ...
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tendency
noun[C]
uk/ˈten.dən.si/us/ˈten.dən.si/
If someone has a tendency to do or like something, they will probably do it or ...
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(Definition ofoverwhelmingandtendencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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As we have seen, theoverwhelmingtendencyhas been to accept (1) as simply a fact of life.
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They showed anoverwhelmingtendencyto review their text on a printout rather than on the screen and tended to find the screen size restrictive.
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Theoverwhelmingtendencyto adapt borrowed words phonologically, rather than phonetically, cannot be an artifact of researchers having gathered loanwords from highly bilingual societies.
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The findings indicate anoverwhelmingtendencyfor teachers to use recasts in spite of the latter's ineffectiveness at eliciting student-generated repair.
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The results showed anoverwhelmingtendencyfor teachers to use recasts, but little learner uptake was observed.
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Data analysis revealed that theoverwhelmingtendencyof learners in all groups was to overuse the masculine singular form.
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What emerges is not unanimity, but theoverwhelmingtendency, the overwhelming majority.
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If the voting age comes down to 18, theoverwhelmingtendencyis likely to result in students being registered in their areas.
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There is anoverwhelmingtendencyin presenting those programmes to concentrate on bad news, even sometimes to the exclusion of good news.
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However, there is anoverwhelmingtendencyfor the 11 most picked players in a squad to be shorter than their team-mates, which could suggest a bias in the scouting system.
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