sole source

collocation in English

meaningsofsoleandsource

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sole
adjective[before noun]
uk
/səʊl/
us
/soʊl/
being one ...
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source
noun[C]
uk
/sɔːs/
us
/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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(Definition ofsoleandsourcefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsole source

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This makes it difficult to see religion as thesolesourceof the conflict.
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To conclude, recent findings indicate that although triadic interactions may be one source of infants' social knowledge, they are not thesolesource.
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The epidemiology and the information about wind direction argue against either cooling tower being thesolesourceof the outbreak.
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Thesolesourceof legitimate authority (though, as said above, not the sole basis of political duty) is, then, the rational consent of individuals.
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Mutation to deleterious alleles is, therefore, probably not thesolesourceof the variation that underlies inbreeding depression.
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The text is long on examples and short on basic principles and pitfalls: it cannot be recommended as asolesourceof information.
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But one thing that remained unchanged was the assumption that syntax is thesolesourceof combinatoriality.
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Those experiences, the primary linguistic data, are thesolesourceof grammatical variation and therefore of grammatical change.
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Such advantages might have suggested that enhanced salience is thesolesourceof the benefits of recasts.
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Because of the differences in the standard deviation of rate plots, they rejected the spike-generating mechanism as thesolesourceof high-pass filtering.
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Stated differently, since the largest eddies cannot originate from even larger ones, theirsolesourceof growth is the source itself.
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Neither demand nor supply-related nor public policy approaches seem to be decisive and could be regarded as thesolesourceof explanation.
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This analysis does not imply, however, that violations of conversational norms are thesolesourceof judgmental biases.
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In this context, the two-tier tenancy system is not thesolesourceof conflict, but the problem is accentuated by the recent changes in the housing market.
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In these situations, personal experience is thesolesourceof authenticity, and the only way that one can truly understand the ageing experience is through 'having been there'.
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The fact of 'internal pluralism' shows that to 'focus specifically on nationality as t hesolesource of morality i s thus profoundly contestable and narrow' (p. 52).
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