isolated phenomenon

collocation in English

meaningsofisolatedandphenomenon

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isolated
adjective
uk
/ˈaɪ.sə.leɪ.tɪd/us
/ˈaɪ.sə.leɪ.t̬ɪd/
not near to ...
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phenomenon
noun[C]
uk
/fəˈnɒm.ɪ.nən/us
/fəˈnɑː.mə.nɑːn/
something that exists and can be seen, felt, tasted, etc., especially something unusual ...
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(Definition ofisolatedandphenomenonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The cultural politics involved here is not just anisolatedphenomenonbetween two different cities.
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Freezing as anisolatedphenomenonindependent from catatonia has been studied in animals and humans.
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Fragmentation is not anisolatedphenomenon, its contribution is realized through other activities.
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This also illustrates that segmental reductions should be investigated in context, not as anisolatedphenomenon.
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Although one might expect the evolution of solitary waves as anisolatedphenomenon.
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Despite all these measures, local life was still anisolatedphenomenoninto the 1950s.
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These expressions demonstrate that having a modifier in between the dependent and the head is certainly not anisolatedphenomenonfor descriptive genitives.
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A language skill should not be treated as anisolatedphenomenon.
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It is not anisolatedphenomenon.
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This is not anisolatedphenomenon.
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This fact can be taken to underscore the notion that linguistic indexicality itself is not anisolatedphenomenon, whereby there is a direct link between linguistic form and social function.
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That is not anisolatedphenomenonin itself, but only a part of the general trend of events.
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We must realise, of course, that the bad weather this year has not been anisolatedphenomenon.
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What is happening to our merchant fleet is not, of course, anisolatedphenomenon.
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It is that we are not here in the presence of anisolatedphenomenon.
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But that is noisolatedphenomenonin the law of contract.
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I began my speech by saying that this was not anisolatedphenomenon.
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We are not dealing here with anisolatedphenomenonin considering the increase of violence and, therefore, the increase in crime.
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It is not anisolatedphenomenon, but something we are seeing all the world over.
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These women's losses are not anisolatedphenomenon, as wage cuts in money terms and real terms are becoming as commonplace in 1984 as redundancies were from 1979 to 1983.
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