spontaneous event
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspontaneousandevent
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spontaneous
adjective
uk/spɒnˈteɪ.ni.əs/us/spɑːnˈteɪ.ni.əs/
happening or done in a natural, often sudden way, without any planning or without ...
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event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofspontaneousandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Typically, patients are asymptomatic at the time of assessment and the opportunity to capture aspontaneouseventduring diagnostic testing is rare.
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Unofficial action is usually aspontaneousevent, inflamed by a sudden happening and of short duration.
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Processions are processions, and the same considerations will apply when people wish to march or demonstrate, particularly if it is to be aspontaneousevent.
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It is not an officially sanctioned nor sponsored event, simply a regular if technicallyspontaneousevent.
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However, it is not inconceivable that phenotypic switching may occur in response to some change in the environment, as well as being aspontaneousevent.
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In many cases strikes and other forms of mass mobilisation were local, spontaneous events with concrete and short-term demands.
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Semantically, unaccusatives express spontaneous events or states in which agents are not involved.
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English has intransitives to express spontaneous events.
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I was told that there would be no problem because these were spontaneous events.
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Many of the spontaneous events that occur on floor are a result of someone walking into someone elses room and striking up a conversation.
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Other spontaneous events, such as curvature of the membrane and fusing of small rafts into larger rafts, can also minimize line tension.
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