important similarity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimportantandsimilarity
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important
adjective
uk/ɪmˈpɔː.tənt/us/ɪmˈpɔːr.tənt/
necessary or of ...
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noun[C or U]
uk/ˌsɪm.ɪˈlær.ə.ti/us/ˌsɪm.əˈler.ə.t̬i/
the fact that people or things look or are ...
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(Definition ofimportantandsimilarityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The mostimportantsimilarity, of course, exists at the point of donation.
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Anotherimportantsimilaritybetween positivists and cultural nationalists was the belief that societies were natural organisms rather than creations of autonomous, free-thinking individuals.
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The acquisition of possessive hve-clausesimportantsimilarityis that in all three languages, the possessive clause presents itself in the order possessor-possessee although the syntactic structure is considerably different.
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In this case there is animportantsimilarity.
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That is an improvement, but there is still animportantsimilaritywith the 1930s which is often overlooked.
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Our two and a half hours of debate bear a remarkable, striking andimportantsimilarityto our five hours of debate between 10.30 pm and 3.30 am last night.
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On a second look, they do have important similarities.
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At the same time, though, they had important similarities.
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We argue that because processes of political democratization in different spatio-temporal settings often share important similarities they are therefore comparable.
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There are some important similarities and differences between the catecholamine and glucocorticoid responses.
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If your main focus is differences, you are very likely to let important similarities go unnoticed, and to miss important generalizations.
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However, the differences should not obscure deeper and more important similarities.
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There are, however, some important similarities between our results and those of others who have used other methodological approaches.
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There are, of course, important similarities between both types of synthetic judgments mentioned above.
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The results suggest that there are important similarities in the business-cycle properties of the home sector across countries.
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Christodoulakis et al. (1995) find that there are important similarities in the time series properties of labor hours across industrialized economies.
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The resultant classifications may be more sensitive to morally relevant similarities and differences, to culturally important similarities and differences, to minority or subordinated group experiences and categorizations, and so on.
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Important similarities were the use of an exploratory phase at the piano and the acknowledgement of both inspiration and revision as components of the composition process.
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There are important similarities between the two groups.
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