welcome news
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwelcomeandnews
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welcome
adjective
uk/ˈwel.kəm/us/ˈwel.kəm/
If someone is welcome, you are pleased when they ...
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news
noun[U]
uk/njuːz/us/nuːz/
information or reports about ...
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(Definition ofwelcomeandnewsfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofwelcome news
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The prospect that organic agriculture has the potential to feed the world iswelcomenewsin light of the contradictions of modern agriculture1.
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Thewelcomenewsthat research had crossed the mind-brain barrier and brought to light abnormalities in the brain-which, after all, controls cognition and behavior-foretold progress to come.
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This will be verywelcomenewsto you.
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That iswelcomenewsthroughout the county and my constituency.
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This will be verywelcomenewsin our part of the world.
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That iswelcomenewsfor the many people who have found paying the community charge this year a real hardship.
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The fall in the underlying, as well as the headline, rate of inflation is verywelcomenewsindeed.
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Clearly, that is extremelywelcomenewsfor this country.
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If it is sustained it will be extremelywelcomenews, but we must wait and see whether it is sustained.
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It is undoubtedly the only bit of good news on unemployment in the last three years, and it iswelcomenews.
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It iswelcomenewsabout immediate revenue, but again it offers no hope regarding long-term investment.
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That paragraph brings thewelcomenewsof a new ministerial group on juveniles to review policy.
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That iswelcomenews, but of course it does not mean that we should relax our own efforts.
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The increase in car registration iswelcomenews.
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This evidence of greater realism by local authorities iswelcomenewsfor all of us, especially ratepayers.
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The overwhelming support for those changes iswelcomenewsto us, as it must be to polytechnic directors.
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They also give thewelcomenewsthat the increase in jobs in the calendar year 1987 was the greatest for a generation.
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It waswelcomenewsin respect of decriminalisation.
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If that represents the true picture, it iswelcomenews.
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I trust that it iswelcomenewsto see that this group's entitlement is enshrined in statute.
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