process of elimination
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprocessandelimination
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process
noun[C]
uk/ˈprəʊ.ses/us/ˈprɑː.ses/
a series of actions that you take in order to achieve ...
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elimination
noun[U]
uk/iˌlɪm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us/iˌlɪm.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
the process of ...
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(Definition ofprocessandeliminationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Therefore, these bounds are refined during theprocessofeliminationwhenever possible.
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Because respondents rejected one-man and one-party rule, multiparty democracy was left, by aprocessofelimination, as the only preferred prospect in the popular imagination.
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However, in a very real sense, data limitations require that we employ aprocessofeliminationthat begins in the following section.
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Velmans (1991a) approached the problem by aprocessofelimination, examining whether consciousness is an essential ingredient of cognitive processes or behavior-production systems.
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Accurately recalled cues from story and made a contextually consistent response, or usedprocessofeliminationto justify response.
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To compare the two simulations, aprocessofeliminationis used to find those processes that are unique to one or the other of the two simulations.
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In many cases it is possible to determine, byprocessofelimination, what has not caused the fire.
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It therefore seems sensible to try to proceed by aprocessofelimination.
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Let me illustrate a little further how hopeless the position is going to be, unless you have a simplerprocessofelimination.
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I suppose that we can come near to the truth by aprocessofelimination.
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I think that that policy has been reached by aprocessofelimination.
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By aprocessofeliminationwe find that there are a limited number of areas where underground car parks can, in fact, be provided.
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We are faced with aprocessofelimination.
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It is the product of aprocessofeliminationand arrives at the solution that is least wanted.
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Has that affected the standard of education in the districts or counties where thatprocessofeliminationof fee-paying schools has been going on?
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There was the salmonella virus and, by aprocessofelimination, the foot-and-mouth virus.
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That is the real question that we have arrived at in ourprocessofelimination.
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It has shown us—thisprocessofelimination—that we are not losing business in any great degree because long-term credit cannot be obtained.
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Therefore, byprocessofelimination, one is left with value-added tax which fulfils all those requirements.
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Many of these were discarded for various reasons and, by theprocessofelimination, six possible sites were considered for further consideration.
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Nyman's only input as a composer is subjecting the given material to a strictprocessofeliminationand reconstruction.
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Teubner arrives there by aprocessofelimination.
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