predominant theme

collocation in English

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predominant
adjective
uk
/prɪˈdɒm.ɪ.nənt/us
/prɪˈdɑː.mə.nənt/
more noticeable or important, or larger in number, ...
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theme
noun[C]
uk
/θiːm/us
/θiːm/
the main subject of a talk, book, ...
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(Definition ofpredominantandthemefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Not all of the papers cohere uniformly to thispredominanttheme, however.
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Marital independence is thepredominanttheme.
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The secondpredominantthemewas the major incongruity between policy and what was actually needed by employees to strike a work-life balance.
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Thepredominantthemehere is a synthesis of the culture of death and a reversal of values.
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He composed anacreontic and pastoral poems with the love aspredominanttheme.
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His language is geometry, hispredominantthemethe relation of illusion and reality.
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The album contains many oldies or standards, with thepredominantthemeof the album being old age and death.
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Anotherpredominantthemeis the effect of a career in pathology on the personal lives of its practitioners.
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Thepredominantthemeof the "grand chant" was courtly love, but topics were more broad than in the "canso", especially after the thirteenth century.
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His nihilism has permeated him and his work, with few exceptions; we can see it as thepredominantthemethat drives his work.
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Sim also notes apredominantthemeof submissiveness amongst the female characters, a reinforcement of traditional gender roles.
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Let us now look at the predominant themes that emerged, and also why these themes should have appeared important in establishment circles.
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While several predominant themes emerged, it became clear that none of these could be discussed in isolation.
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Whatever the merits of the scheme—and of course it has some—it has two predominant themes.
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The two most predominant themes are the two title images, "fences" and "windows".
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Reviews picked up on the predominant themes of the album; outsider status, popular culture references from the 1950s and 60s and relationships from a female perspective.
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Predominant themes have included surgical minimalism, technology transfer and the implementation of advanced technologies to the therapy of brain diseases.
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