striking illustration

collocation in English

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striking
adjective
uk
/ˈstraɪ.kɪŋ/
us
/ˈstraɪ.kɪŋ/
very unusual or easily noticed, and therefore attracting a lot ...
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illustration
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌɪl.əˈstreɪ.ʃən/
us
/ˌɪl.əˈstreɪ.ʃən/
a picture in a book, magazine, etc. or the process of ...
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(Definition ofstrikingandillustrationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This cross-section of the region's major powers provides astrikingillustrationof the problems of aggregation and salience.
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The moststrikingillustrationof this has been the almost complete exclusion, until recently, of elderly patients from trials of new medication.
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Chomskyan psycholinguistics provide astrikingillustrationof these points.
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Silbo thus provides astrikingillustrationof feature economy, the maximal use of distinctive features.
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Regarding the use of historical data to advance social science propositions, the story of 1876 provides astrikingillustrationfor the effect of electoral mechanisms upon electoral results.
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The fact that it is widely held among economists is a ratherstrikingillustrationof just how tight a grip the standard paradigm has obtained over the past fifty years.
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I think we have in this matter astrikingillustrationof the extreme inconvenience of legislating under the guillotine.
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But it is the moststrikingillustrationof art unwritten convention, by which we all hold ourselves bound honourably to abide.
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We are discussing astrikingillustrationof what has gone wrong in our society and with our system of government.
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We havestrikingillustrationday by day of the effect upon the live register of the movement in trade itself.
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In fact, we had astrikingillustrationof how exposure could result in rather earlier payment.
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That is astrikingillustrationof the valuelessness of these prosecutions.
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I can give onestrikingillustrationof the fact that we have moved in that direction.
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But here is an even morestrikingillustration.
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If that is true, there can be no morestrikingillustrationof the disastrous consequences of drunken driving.
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In the case of the marketing societies the milk agency is a verystrikingillustration.
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There is onestrikingillustrationin the life of our country today.
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I thought that was a verystrikingillustration.
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That is astrikingillustrationof the value of this safety valve and the necessity of a periodical verdict of the electors.
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Let me take the moststrikingillustrationof all.
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