imaginative leap

collocation in English

meaningsofimaginativeandleap

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imaginative
adjective
uk
/ɪˈmædʒ.ɪ.nə.tɪv/us
/ɪˈmædʒ.ə.nə.t̬ɪv/
new, original, ...
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leap
noun[C]
uk
/liːp/us
/liːp/
a big change, increase, ...
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(Definition ofimaginativeandleapfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimaginative leap

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To bring it from its own time-frame into our own, animaginativeleapis required on the part of actors and directors.
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It is important to point out that there is no principled way for theimaginativeleap.
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Theimaginativeleapof research does not come in that way by instructions from on high.
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However, that is a veryimaginativeleap.
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This failure to make theimaginativeleapis one of the most serious problems facing the country.
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They should be prepared to take animaginativeleapforward for human rights such as has been managed in other countries.
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The play challenges us to make animaginativeleapinto the wild blue.
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Animaginativeleap, the "tentative solution" is improvised, lacking inductive rules to guide it.
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Instead, each novel pairing of sound and meaning involves animaginativeleap.
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The "tentative solution" is improvised, animaginativeleapunguided by inductive rules, and the resulting universal law is deductive, an entailed consequence of all, included explanatory considerations.
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I note the imaginative leaps of others.
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Kay's imaginative leaps in story and language will remind some readers of a masterful jazz solo.
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