unfolding events
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunfoldandevent
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unfold
verb
uk/ʌnˈfəʊld/us/ʌnˈfoʊld/
to open or spread out something that has ...
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event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofunfoldandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For yet others, it was his ability to see everyunfoldingeventagainst the spatial background of the whole world, against the temporal background of the entire canvas of history.
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The discussion on these topics lags behind unfolding events.
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And indeed, in reviewing the unfolding events of the funeral, one is struck by the impression that everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
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In particular, an emulator which predicts unfolding events can be described as an internalization of external structures.
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This new democracy promotion community required an analytic framework to both conceptualize and guide their responses to unfolding events.
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Women's inability to hold positions of political authority and to bear arms has therefore obliterated their participation in the unfolding events of the late 1650s.
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It is the story of a middle age sailor desperatedly fighting against the unfolding events of his existence.
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Veterans from the nearby 1st battalion also witnessed the unfolding events.
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The television and cable networks that are covering the press conference as routine news then begin broadcasting the unfolding events live.
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His lucid explanations and observations of the unfolding events only served to help cement them as historic moments in sporting history.
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The unfolding events force him to confront painful memories from his past, from which his isolation on the island has enabled him to remain largely immune until now.
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