topic of study

collocation in English

meaningsoftopicandstudy

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topic
noun[C]
uk
/ˈtɒp.ɪk/us
/ˈtɑː.pɪk/
a subject that is discussed, written about, ...
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study
noun
uk
/ˈstʌd.i/us
/ˈstʌd.i/
the activity of examining a subject in detail in order to discover ...
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(Definition oftopicandstudyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftopic of study

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This will also be a futuretopicofstudy.
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Laryngeal features have long been atopicofstudy, and the three articles on this topic make different types of contributions.
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Results are likely to be comparable only when comparable definitions of thetopicofstudyare used.
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When the dangers of cost-push inflation first became a serioustopicofstudy, in the 1950s, a proposal was developed to introduce a policy of productivity, prices and incomes.
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The composition of the ice is currently an activetopicofstudy.
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However, although these results are promising, this is a relatively newtopicofstudyand more research needs to be done in the area.
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For this reason, blindness in animals is a uniquetopicofstudy.
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It is atopicofstudyand interest in regard to the genetic composition of people of that region.
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As such, it is frequently atopicofstudyin neurolinguistics experiments, specifically in areas such as sentence processing.
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From the 1970s onwards, thetopicofstudybecame the personal relations between magnates and the crown, and the distribution of patronage.
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The equations defining abelian varieties are atopicofstudybecause every abelian variety is a projective variety.
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The environment has been another interestingtopicofstudy.
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As a direct and independenttopicofstudy, creativity effectively received no attention until the 19th century.
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Teachers determine atopicofstudythat relates to the children's interest.
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Students are asked to explain, comment on, or assess atopicofstudyin the form of an essay.
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Ethnomethodology is a descriptive discipline and does not engage in the explanation or evaluation of the particular social order undertaken as atopicofstudy.
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Due to this functionality, adhesions and adhesion molecules have been atopicofstudywithin the scientific community.
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The taxonomy of this genus continues to be atopicofstudyas new species are named or long-standing ones reassigned to other genera.
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Even the project of studying the evolutionary functions of consciousness is now an activetopicofstudy.
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