revolutionary idea
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrevolutionaryandidea
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revolutionary
adjective
uk/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən.ər.i/us/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən.er.i/
involved in or relating to ...
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idea
noun
uk/aɪˈdɪə/us/aɪˈdiː.ə/
a suggestion or plan for ...
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(Definition ofrevolutionaryandideafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Similarly, to study music in the social and cultural context within which it originated is hardly arevolutionaryidea.
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In the politics of the period, this was a trulyrevolutionaryidea.
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Indeed, hisrevolutionaryideawas to present the human being as a psychosomatic unity.
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Therevolutionaryideathat he proposed was to apply an energy balance approach instead of the more popular "stress threshold" criterion.
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As noted earlier, until recently it was not even clear that thisrevolutionaryideahad been preceded by such an earlier phase of reception.
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Not only is time an essential ingredient in all geological research, but the discovery of the antiquity of geological time was a trulyrevolutionaryidea.
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I have, however, a question: why were consultations not carried out before announcing such arevolutionaryidea?
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This is not arevolutionaryidea, nor was it my idea.
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For a time that seemed to be arevolutionaryidea.
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So there was no idle orrevolutionaryideain their mind when they put in for £1 a week nine months ago.
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It is not arevolutionaryidea—the producer-provider split in the public services is as old as public service itself.
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It seems rather an extraordinary andrevolutionaryideain the case of a small island like this.
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That should not be a difficult orrevolutionaryidea: it is a sensible response to the needs of the modern passenger.
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That is not arevolutionaryidea.
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There is not arevolutionaryideain existence which has not had its birth in this country.
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It is in no sense arevolutionaryidea; it is entirely consistent with past history, which shows a steadily accelerating trend towards integration.
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It is not a veryrevolutionaryidea.
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This is not arevolutionaryidea.
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The public ownership of land is not arevolutionaryidea.
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I want to end by saying just one word about whether this is really such arevolutionaryideaor not.
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