major challenge
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmajorandchallenge
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major
adjective
uk/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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challenge
noun
uk/ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ/us/ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ/
(the situation of being faced with) something that needs great mental or physical effort in order to be done successfully and therefore tests a ...
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(Definition ofmajorandchallengefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Attempting to write a global geographical perspective on organic agriculture is amajorchallenge.
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Once again, amajorchallengeahead is exploration of the adjustment of tactic choice that may have been selected by varying selection pressures.
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Themajorchallengein the development of antischistosome vaccines is to use defined antigens to stimulate an appropriate immune response that leads to resistance.
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Extending some of the resource-conserving interventions developed for wheat to rice culture is amajorchallengefor researchers and farmers alike.
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Presenting audiences with the view that 'nothing had changed' in a building that is 80 per cent new was amajorchallenge.
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The ascorbic acid system in seeds metabolism is amajorchallengefor the future.
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To ensure high quality while maintaining reasonable annotation speed is amajorchallenge.
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However, understanding the way the past was viewed by prehistoric groups has been amajorchallengeto archaeologists.
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Meeting these new expectations and providing learners with real language skills will be amajorchallengefor teachers.
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This is a significant problem, amajorchallengeto archaeologists working in this field.
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The screening of the bulk of potential target genes or proteins in order to select those that have clinical importance is now amajorchallenge.
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Themajorchallengeof the feature-level data fusion comes from the missing phase information.
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Amajorchallengein studying these genes is the high similarity of the sequences, making it difficult to distinguish between them.
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It would be amajorchallengeto achieve this degree of anatomical accuracy in a physical robot model.
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Finding more appropriate methods to replace missing data in psychotherapy trials is amajorchallenge.
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Their formulation and resolution constitute amajorchallengeto the biological sciences.
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Amajorchallengefacing industry today is the lack of interoperability between heterogeneous systems.
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The procedure we used provided amajorchallengefor 2-year-olds.
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Amajorchallengefor transitioning states is to create a constituency of citizens to support and defend the new constitution.
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Diversity is today'smajorchallengefor preparing teachers to teach literature.
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