important discovery

collocation in English

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important
adjective
uk
/ɪmˈpɔː.tənt/us
/ɪmˈpɔːr.tənt/
necessary or of ...
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discovery
noun
uk
/dɪˈskʌv.ər.i/us
/dɪˈskʌv.ɚ.i/
the process of finding information, a place, or an object, especially for the first time, or the thing that ...
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(Definition ofimportantanddiscoveryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimportant discovery

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Why is this such animportantdiscovery?
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From the categorical perspective, however, the emergence of do is an extremelyimportantdiscovery.
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There was a sense ofimportantdiscoveryand selfrealisation in many of the comments.
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However, close investigation of the issue turned out to lead to animportantdiscovery.
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Let's back up a few years to discuss anotherimportantdiscovery.
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I have made a genuinelyimportantdiscovery.
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The second consequence was linear negation, by far the mostimportantdiscoveryof linear logic, and the compulsory door to interactivity.
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Indeed, animportantdiscovery, made first in the simulation and only later confirmed experimentally, is that filament mass is essential for sustained flapping.
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If so, that would be animportantdiscoveryabout the design argument, for that would mean that its friends would have to battle on yet another philosophical front.
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We have this enormouslyimportantdiscoveryof oil round our coasts.
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I made anotherimportantdiscovery, which may lift up your hearts, brothers and sisters.
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This was a veryimportantdiscoveryin that it demonstrated that lexical semantics could play an important role in the acquisition of a grammatical category like aspect or tense.
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We also had the tremendous advantage that practically everyimportantdiscoveryin steel was made by people of this country.
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Animportantdiscoveryof this war has been the national value of part-time work by women.
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Anotherimportantdiscoveryis that of savings.
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This was animportantdiscoveryfor neurolinguistics.
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The mostimportantdiscoveryduring our deliberations was the enormously fertile area in which we can look for ways to make savings.
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His mostimportantdiscoveryis the ultraslow nature of biological water.
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Thisimportantdiscoverymay be the largest grouping of flame shells anywhere in the world.
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Their mostimportantdiscoverywas the function of 2,3-bisphosphoglyceric acid.
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Hisimportantdiscoveryof the danger of trichine dates from 1860.
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Goeyvaerts saw them as animportantdiscoveryfor music: the purest sound possible.
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As a result, another veryimportantdiscoverywas made: solid chocolate.
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I repeat that it would be a peculiar happening if thisimportantdiscoverydid not have some effect on the living conditions of the people concerned.
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His mostimportantdiscoverywas made while using an experimental strategy known as a pulse-chase analysis.
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