locus classicus

collocation in English

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locus
noun[C]
uk
/ˈləʊ.kəs/us
/ˈloʊ.kəs/
the place where something happens or the central area of interest in something ...
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(Definition oflocusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This passage is thelocusclassicusfor why generative grammars have traditionally paid no heed to the statistics of language.
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Regarded as alocusclassicusby some, the essay is often credited with having mapped the field for the first time.
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Phaedra's confession of guilt to her nurse is something of alocusclassicusfor the mind/body distinction.
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Benjamin is, needless to say, thelocusclassicusfor any discussion of the passage.
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The steel industry is thelocusclassicusof misdirected public investment.
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The latter report will be thelocusclassicusfor all further discussion on monetary union.
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That is always referred to as thelocusclassicusof the way not to do it.
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It used to be used as thelocusclassicusfor legislative change in criminal justice.
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That was alocusclassicusof industrial development policy, and it was the first time that it was set out.
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This is alocusclassicusfor deciding whether a document should be published.
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What is thelocusclassicusfor successful preferential trade?
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The report is now a kind oflocusclassicusfor any discussion of this subject.
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These are probably the "locusclassicus" for most subsequent cultural references.
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Works of this period include 25 crucially important wind quintets which are considered thelocusclassicus of that genre and are his best-known compositions.
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Siberia is regarded as the "locusclassicus" of shamanism and polytheism is popular.
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