passing phase

collocation in English

meaningsofpassingandphase

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passing
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈpɑː.sɪŋ/us
/ˈpæs.ɪŋ/
moving ...
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phase
noun[C]
uk
/feɪz/us
/feɪz/
any stage in a series of events or in a process ...
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(Definition ofpassingandphasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpassing phase

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This is nopassingphase.
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It is apassingphase.
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This defensive attitude towards the double threat of the modern and the foreign was by no means apassingphase.
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Nor clearly is this apassingphase.
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It is not just apassingphase.
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It is but apassingphase.
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I hope that was only apassingphase.
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He never indicated that this was just apassingphase.
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That will come about; this is apassingphase.
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The movement is in reality apassingphaseof emotion.
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That may be apassingphaseor a permanent phase.
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The present situation is just apassingphase.
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I hope that it is apassingphase.
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They could be very important or just apassingphase.
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Who knows that it might not be yet anotherpassingphase, another short period of change and prosperity before the next cataclysm?
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The important thing was that an undertaking was given that unemployment was apassingphase.
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Far from being apassingphase, since 1959 we have had prolonged periods of substantial unemployment.
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We must remember that youth in all of us is apassingphase.
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But he was quite hopeful that this was only apassingphase.
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He said that this is only apassingphase, and that this downcast portion will disappear.
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But we shall wait and see whether that is not apassingphase.
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Is it going to be permanent or is this apassingphase?
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I am sure that that is likely to prove apassingphase.
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I am not altogether convinced that it is apassingphase.
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