lethal combination

collocation in English

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lethal
adjective
uk
/ˈliː.θəl/us
/ˈliː.θəl/
able to cause or causing death; ...
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combination
noun
uk
/ˌkɒm.bɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌkɑːm.bəˈneɪ.ʃən/
the mixture you get when two or more things ...
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(Definition oflethalandcombinationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Altogether, it is a prettylethalcombination.
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That can be a verylethalcombination.
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Quite straightforwardly, electricity and water are alethalcombination.
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A combination of ageing vessels and days-at-sea restrictions could be alethalcombination.
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This has proved a particularlylethalcombination, because again and again one gets this totally negative attitude to fiscal policy.
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We have alethalcombinationof low real pay and even lower real output compared with our competitors.
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It was alethalcombinationof excessive liquor and sleeping pills.
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Putting people back to work would certainly help, but now we have thelethalcombinationof mass unemployment and a soaring crime rate.
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It is alethalcombinationleading to unrest in a number of developing countries; it is a combination leading to starvation.
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We have in that provision thelethalcombinationof local authorities on the one hand and national bureaucracies on the other.
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Thelethalcombinationof inadequate incomes, lack of affordable credit alternatives and extortionate interest rates means that low-income families are quickly trapped in a spiral of unsustainable debt.
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An autopsy later showed alethalcombinationof secobarbital and amobarbital, which contributed to her death at the age of 39.
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He revealed his findings that her death was due to an accidentallethalcombinationof therapeutic levels of 3 benzodiazepines and chloral hydrate.
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