authoritative version

collocation in English

meaningsofauthoritativeandversion

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authoritative
adjective
uk
/ɔːˈθɒr.ɪ.tə.tɪv/us
/əˈθɔːr.ə.t̬ə.t̬ɪv/
showing that you are confident, in control, and expect to be respected ...
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version
noun[C]
uk
/ˈvɜː.ʃən/uk
/ˈvɜː.ʒən/us
/ˈvɝː.ʒən/
a particular form of something that is slightly different from other forms of the ...
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(Definition ofauthoritativeandversionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofauthoritative version

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The young knight aligns his identity with anauthoritativeversionof history and social power enshrined within the church.
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This leaves us with no singleauthoritativeversionvalidated through repeated international airplay.
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In any case, theauthoritativeversionis always, of course, the original language version.
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Who is to say what is anauthoritativeversion?
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We must wait to see what it says—wait for anauthoritativeversionof what happened—and we shall decide what to do then.
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The paragraph refers to "someauthoritativeversion".
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The fuller and moreauthoritativeversionof this work dates from 1814.
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By fixing forever on paper what had previously been subject to almost infinite variation, they fixed as theauthoritativeversionan account told by one narrator at a given moment.
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There is no single orauthoritativeversion.
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Different ways of framing the situation may compete to be accepted as anauthoritativeversionof reality, consequently spurring competition between sources of information for definition of an issue.
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Dever has stated that as the game books precede the novelizations chronologically, they are the authoritative versions.
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The earlier volumes collected and published authoritative versions of all inscriptions known at the timemost of these had been previously published in a wide range of publications.
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Her writing was required reading for court poets as early as the 12th century as her work began to be studied by scholars who generated authoritative versions and criticism.
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