seminal work
collocation in Englishmeaningsofseminalandwork
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seminal
adjective
uk/ˈsem.ɪ.nəl/us/ˈsem.ə.nəl/
formal
containing important new ideas and having a great influence on ...
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work
noun
uk/wɜːk/us/wɝːk/
an activity, such as a job, that a person uses physical or mental effort to do, usually ...
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(Definition ofseminalandworkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It asks whether thisseminalworkattests to a continuity of symbolic meanings or whether it is the product of hermetic thought.
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He also covers his ownseminalworkon infants at risk for vocal delay.
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Still, due to different backgrounds and motivation, theseminalworkdone in these two places exhibits striking differences both in form and substance.
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It will no doubt be theseminalworkfor many years to come.
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Forseminalwork, by definition, goes where few have gone before.
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Current concepts of genetic programming developed from theseminalworkof numerous researchers in the 1970s and 1980s.
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This is what makes a trulyseminalwork.
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It is intended both as a research-level text, and as a reference forseminalwork.
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Followingseminalworkon the use of science in public policy (27), we focus our attention on three concepts: instrumental, conceptual, and symbolic uses.
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In the four decades since thatseminalworkwas published, the organic movement has grown exponentially worldwide.
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Thisseminalworkshowed that both the body and the silk were important for ballooning.
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Any student with an interest in experimental parasitology would be well advised to consult hisseminalworkin this area.
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In the footnote to the very first paragraph of hisseminalwork, he made clear the difference between linguistics and philology.
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From this angle,seminalworkoften involves more relaxed methodological styles because initial exploration of a topic or area, almost by definition, must be unguided by research conventions and norms.
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Smith's8seminalworkon market segmentation is now a common method for strategically developing the marketing mix for a variety of products.
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Unfortunately, probably due to reasons of length, the syntax of the noun phrase is not covered even though the author has herself doneseminalworkon the topic.
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Carnap (1962) is aseminalworkon probabilistic logic.
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I have no doubt it will become theseminalworkin the development of pension law for well into the next century.
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It was aseminalworkin the matter to which we are now giving consideration.
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Thatseminalworkopened and developed a debate about what a just society is.
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