particular moment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofparticularandmoment
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particular
adjective
uk/pəˈtɪk.jə.lər/us/pɚˈtɪk.jə.lɚ/
special, or this and not ...
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moment
noun
uk/ˈməʊ.mənt/us/ˈmoʊ.mənt/
a very short period ...
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(Definition ofparticularandmomentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofparticular moment
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The conventions of artistic production become relative, defined only at aparticularmomentin time from one particular standpoint.
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More importantly, they were, almost without exception, products of aparticularmomentin the history of the world.
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Their centrality to public urban discourse, however, constituted aparticularmomentin the city's history.
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There is a danger, however, of being too prescriptive about the steps which are appropriate at anyparticularmoment.
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They were simply a custom accompanying and adding attraction to aparticularmomentof leisure.
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Repetition and replay is increasing, but the heart of performance happens in aparticularmomentand place.
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It resides in theparticularmomentof reception, one shaped by dominant aesthetic and social expectations that are themselves historically structured (2).
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The speeches at the dinner illustrated the range of international constitutional liberalism at thisparticularmoment.
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They have to open a window at oneparticularmoment, and close it at another.
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Why does an entry or exit happen at thisparticularmoment?
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Exogenous factors in the social and political environment ineluctably impinge on how beliefs are formulated and the salience of perspectives at aparticularmoment.
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Put another way, since events happen at specific moments, aparticularmomentimplicates a particular event with which it is correlated.
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One may calculate anyparticularmomentpolynomial explicitly, but the computations quickly become a tedious exercise in the arrangement of parentheses.
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This article has considered the way that the urban and the industrial came together in reform projects at aparticularmomentin the 1860s.
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To be locked in aparticularmomentof time and place is, at least partially, to become spiritually, emotionally, and sometimes physically frozen.
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In other words, sandalwood is a finite resource at anyparticularmomentbut one that is naturally renewable with high rates of seed and root stock propagation.
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Intervention at aparticularmomentin the growth of rat populations rather than as a result of observed damage is shown to be much more effective in avoiding major losses.
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And it can provide one element of a larger, more ambitious analysis, shedding light only on aparticularmomentor phase of a larger social process.
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New instruments define the sounds of genres current at aparticularmoment.
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