intellectual environment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofintellectualandenvironment
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intellectual
adjective
uk/ˌɪn.təlˈek.tʃu.əl/us/ˌɪn.t̬əlˈek.tʃu.əl/
relating to your ability to think and understand things, especially ...
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environment
noun
uk/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/us/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/
the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and ...
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The adoption of these ideas in archaeology has been a sometimes reluctant, and often belated, adjustment to a transformed social, political andintellectualenvironment.
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The use of figurative language, banal as it may seem, reflects the experience of the user and theintellectualenvironmentin which he functioned.
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The forces he has in mind are the shared, general,intellectualenvironmentand the conservatism of legal education.
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Perhaps the field of eighteenth-century music studies was slow to reposition itself in this newintellectualenvironment.
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Richardson's posthumous influence came about because, at last, theintellectualenvironmentwas congenial to such work.
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Theintellectualenvironmentsupported students as they learned about composing by encouraging their disposition to be creative through facilitation of divergent and exploratory modes of learning.
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Wells's brief interpolation evinces a significant disillusionment, one that plays into the already confused evolutionary picture that the novel absorbed from its complex scientific andintellectualenvironment.
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That remark is not worthy of a gentleman who has spent some of his time in anintellectualenvironment.
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But if we are not careful, the neighbourhood comprehensive school will not find the challengingintellectualenvironmentin which these potential skills are brought on.
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I think that a spirit of co-operation and a determination to drive standards forward will overcome many of the problems that we could perceive in perhaps a moreintellectualenvironment.
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Altogether more insidious is to work in anintellectualenvironmentwhere certain assumptions are made but never very elaborately spelled out because there is nobody to criticise them.
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He grew up into theintellectualenvironmentcreated by his father and during his childhood he learned several languages.
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Lidow was brought up in a creative andintellectualenvironment.
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The institution strives for anintellectualenvironmentthat motivates students, lecturers, personnel, graduates, and others.
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He was fond of literature and theatre from his young age, and was exposed to a highly stimulatingintellectualenvironmentin his family.
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The goal of the university is to offer a richintellectualenvironmentand to cultivate the excellent brains that a modern country would need.
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The university is renowned for its teaching and its openintellectualenvironment.
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All students on campus enjoy a convivial social andintellectualenvironmentbased on tolerance and pluralism and are actively engaged in voluntary activities in the neighboring communities.
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The term blogosphere was first formed colloquially in 1999, and has since evolved to mean the cultural orintellectualenvironmentin which blogs are written and read.
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Mary liked theintellectualenvironmentthat she grew up in, learning how to think for herself and defend her beliefs.
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