key event
collocation in Englishmeaningsofkeyandevent
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key
adjective
uk/kiː/us/kiː/
very important and having a lot of influence on other people ...
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event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofkeyandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofkey event
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Adjustment of conformational flexibility is akeyeventin the thermal adaptation of proteins.
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Proliferation is akeyeventin the activation of microglia in acute pathology, and has been extensively characterised in rats, but not in mice.
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Neuwirth focused on the 'point of attraction' in the coda of the slow movement, an unusual moment or 'keyevent' that takes the experienced listener by surprise (bars 91-92).
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The birth of a child is surely akeyeventin the health story of any family.
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The nextkeyeventfor the scheme will be a public consultation, which is planned to take place in 1993.
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This evening was for him thekeyeventof his education.
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Anotherkeyeventwas an electrical problem at the gesta that jeopardized the reactors cooling system.
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The occupation became akeyeventillustrating the widespread disaffection and rebelliousness among the nation's youth during the 1960s.
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It evolved from something spontaneous to a more formal project to commemorate somekeyeventon campus at the time.
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Thiskeyeventwould be a main topic among the governors.
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As such, it has been seen as akeyeventin forging a sense of national identity.
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Allowing a key oppositional figure to establish this newspaper was seen as akeyeventin the opening up of society.
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The drive was akeyeventin the technical development of the automobile.
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But, as we have seen, a number of key events helped precipitate such change.
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Such a narrative risks excluding some key events from the sequences of data it assembles.
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It was quite astonishing to hear some accounts of key events that had been given five years previously repeated almost word for word.
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Key events such as national and international meetings need to be monitored for emerging data.
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Erikson went on to describe how peer pressure is akeyeventduring the adolescences stage of psychosocial development.
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Anotherkeyeventin the further development of algebra was the general algebraic solution of the cubic and quartic equations, developed in the mid-16th century.
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