loose collection

collocation in English

meaningsoflooseandcollection

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loose
adjective
uk
/luːs/us
/luːs/
not firmly held or fastened ...
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collection
noun
uk
/kəˈlek.ʃən/us
/kəˈlek.ʃən/
a group of objects of one type that have been collected by one person or in ...
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(Definition oflooseandcollectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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While this volume is more than aloosecollectionof individual contributions, the link between those contributions is a bit weak.
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Aloosecollectionof patterns is not a system, because it lacks connections.
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In this case, the final result is aloosecollectioncontributed by a mixture of historians, literary scholars and art historians whose disciplines emerge as blatantly disparate.
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An agreed portfolio of documents has a greater communication impact than aloosecollectionof separate documents.
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It is aloosecollectionof autobiographical and philosophical essays about the wilderness, written between 1978 and 1982.
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Strictly speaking, this still wasn't a formal championship, but aloosecollectionof races run to various rules.
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By 390, it evolved from aloosecollectionof solitary monks to an organized community with bankers, merchants and church services.
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The epic is divided into three parts, each consisting of aloosecollectionof episodic heroic events.
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This allows the author to hypothesize aloosecollectionof societies that exist largely in isolation from one another, providing the setting for her explorations of intercultural encounter.
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Comet nuclei range from a few hundred metres to tens of kilometres across and are composed of loose collections of ice, dust, and small rocky particles.
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