timely reminder

collocation in English

meaningsoftimelyandreminder

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timely
adjective
uk
/ˈtaɪm.li/us
/ˈtaɪm.li/
happening at the best ...
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reminder
noun
uk
/rɪˈmaɪn.dər/us
/rɪˈmaɪn.dɚ/
a written or spoken message that reminds someone to ...
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(Definition oftimelyandreminderfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It provides atimelyreminderof the importance of the long-advocated but oftneglected practice of hand washing between patient encounters.
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Contemporary assisted-living environments do not necessarily achieve this objective, and so this book provides atimelyreminderabout the ethos behind the original idea.
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The book is also atimelyreminderfor psychologists of how strange it is that teaching departments are still reluctant to include ageing and later life in the curricula.
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The review provided atimelyreminderof the value of determining how environmental influences impinged on the individual, rather than just relying on broad measures at the family level.
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In an era when the historic environment and urban revitalization are inextricably linked, this book serves as atimelyreminderof the evolution of the conservation movement.
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It served as atimelyreminderof how successful and precious the arts are to so many of us.
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It also gives atimelyreminderof the long lead times involved in bringing on-stream new or alternative sources of energy.
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We must also consider the current review of local government, atimelyreminderthat administrative boundaries are not for ever or unchanging.
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It was atimelyreminderand showed a perceptive view.
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This is atimelyreminderof something which is self-evidently the case.
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It gives atimelyreminderof the danger of widespread availability of handguns.
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He gave us atimelyreminderof the importance of the tourist industry and of the part played by the railways in that respect.
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That reception, which was atimelyreminder, was about and for an association of organisations for refugees.
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This debate is atimelyreminderof the special duty that we owe not just to our armed forces but to their families.
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It serves as atimelyreminderof why we are all here.
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It is a verytimelyreminderto all of us of what we are primarily here for.
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It is a mosttimelyreminderof the position of a victim in such circumstances.
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Given what is happening now, the debate is atimelyreminderof what happened then.
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