topical issue

collocation in English

meaningsoftopicalandissue

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topical
adjective
uk
/ˈtɒp.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈtɑː.pɪ.kəl/
of interest at the present time; relating to things that are happening ...
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issue
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪʃ.uː/us
/ˈɪʃ.uː/
a subject or problem that people are thinking and ...
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(Definition oftopicalandissuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftopical issue

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The first three articles in thistopicalissueoffer different perspectives on the role of medicine, science, medical borders, and immigration.
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I can explain a viewpoint on atopicalissuegiving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
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Architecture and the environment is currently atopicalissuewhich is producing a great number of books with too little quantitative evaluation.
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This important and highlytopicalissuewill lie at the heart of these proceedings.
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The book's insights could help problematise the unhelpful liberalism/fundamentalism and choice/coercion paradigms that palpably frame thistopicalissue.
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This collection describes current techniques of lexical representation within a unification-based framework and their linguistic application, concentrating on the highlytopicalissueof structuring the lexicon using inheritance and defaults.
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Can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on atopicalissue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
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That is why the concept of affordability is such atopicalissuethese days - and rightly so.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
I voted in favour of this outstanding report on a most important, relevant andtopicalissue.
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This could not be taken into account in the report, but is a verytopicalissue.
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It would be hard to think of a moretopicalissue.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
It will be atopicalissue, which must be dealt with.
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Hansard archive
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Certainly it is a highlytopicalissueand one that is central to the conduct of economic policy.
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I give a hypothetical example that relates to atopicalissue.
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The greenhouse effect has become atopicalissueof late.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
I have tabled these amendments because they are on a verytopicalissue.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
In my country, illegal immigration is unfortunately an extremelytopicalissue.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Often, atopicalissuehas to be cleared up one way or the other.
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Hansard archive
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The absence of banks is anothertopicalissue.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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