special relevance

collocation in English

meaningsofspecialandrelevance

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special
adjective
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/ˈspeʃ.əl/us
/ˈspeʃ.əl/
not ordinary ...
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relevance
noun[U]
uk
/ˈrel.ə.vəns/us
/ˈrel.ə.vəns/
the degree to which something is related or useful to what is happening or being ...
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(Definition ofspecialandrelevancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofspecial relevance

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In particular, those involved in research and development will see the newly implemented systems as ofspecialrelevanceto automation.
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This entails prior definition of a number of brain regions that are considered likely to be ofspecialrelevanceto the disorder under investigation.
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Ofspecialrelevanceis the so-called unconscious semantic priming effect.
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This carriesspecialrelevancewhen considering gender relations in civil society.
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Ofspecialrelevanceis the increasing demand by patients for care coordination (40).
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An intriguing possibility is that embodiment principles may havespecialrelevanceto the way supernatural ideas elicit emotions and associated body states.
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We know that normal processes of learning and memory, if subjected to sufficient repetitions, or if they are of enough intellectual interest orspecialrelevance, can last a lifetime.
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The described capacities of some metallic ions havespecialrelevancefor the prebiotic synthesis of nucleic acids in extreme environments with complex mixtures of ions and limited availability of substrates.
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Languages present facts ofspecialrelevancethat can be accounted for not in terms of grammaticality but rather in terms of frequency of occurrence (or regularity) in a given corpus.
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Patient withdrawal during the intervention is a general problem in experimental research per se, and ofspecialrelevanceto both palliative care patients and physical exercise interventions.
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It has nospecialrelevanceto our present economic problems.
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I suggest that two other specific election results are ofspecialrelevancein this connection.
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That is ofspecialrelevanceand primary significance for our country.
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The amendments have somespecialrelevanceto the situation in the electricity supply industry.
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The only difficulty about that theme is that it has nospecialrelevanceto the subject we are considering today.
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The fact that the events happened in my constituency has nospecialrelevance.
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I said that the subject was ofspecialrelevanceto my constituency.
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In those circumstances we felt that it had nospecialrelevanceto the rehabilitation of adolescents.
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In my view this has aspecialrelevanceto the present troubled state of industry.
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A proof of age card would havespecialrelevancein that context.
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