Collocations withworld
These are words often used in combination withworld.
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alien world
From everyday objects they built an alien world.
From theCambridge English Corpus
ancient world
The ancient world made a welcome reappearance in three theses.
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capitalist world
Across the capitalist world the problem of cost containment has dominated health care since the mid-1970s.
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changed world
We would be setting a new standard of deterrence—a new type of deterrence, which is necessary in a changed world.
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changing world
Developing language teachers for a changing world.
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civilised world
In today's civilised world, the disparity between men and women, and majorities and minorities, must be done away with.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
civilized world
A sense of crossing a threshold from the public sphere of middle-class civilization to a more shadowy and less civilized world pervades the report.
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competitive world
Socialising is essential to face the competitive world.
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corporate world
This is, of course, only applicable if we believe that the corporate world is not somehow inherently evil in the first place.
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created world
These squares were connected with the four cardinal points, the center being the point where all parts of the created world converge.
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developed world
They do, all over the developed world.
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developing world
What of the developing world?
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entire world
These two ideas are only about when one entire world history is better than another.
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ever-changing world
It has been developed as a technique, whose role is to pin down the ever-changing world of service delivery.
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external world
The use of parody enables the external world to 'enter' and disrupt the otherwise 'purely musical' discourse.
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fallen world
We inhabitants of a fallen world, however, must take the kingdom of heaven by violence.
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fast-moving world
We live in a fast-moving world with a growing population and instant communications, and vigilance and diplomacy are more necessary than ever before.
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fictional world
Instead, it seems to have split into a number of 'diegetic' musics that emanate from performers within the fictional world of the drama.
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globalized world
Formalized family associations are not reactionary responses to a globalized world.
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ideal world
In an ideal world, most people would prefer gourmet cuisine, but it is costly and difficult to prepare.
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imaginary world
The imaginary world has no propositional link with the actual one.
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industrialized world
Very little writing is actually done in many schools in the industrialized world.
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inhabited world
Most scholars agreed that the latitude of 66° constituted the boundary of the inhabited world.
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interconnected world
The oasis is compared to today's virtual and real places where the conditions arise at certain moments, in our interconnected world, for experiencing the 'other'.
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interdependent world
We live in an increasingly interdependent world.
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magical world
It could be argued that in a completely magical world these distinctions would break down.
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make-believe world
They are trying to con the electorate into believing that if they were in office, we would be in a make-believe world.
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male-dominated world
In contrast to women who were widowed or left behind by migrants, other women consciously chose to leave the male-dominated world.
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materialistic world
The spiritual element of life must also be given prominence in an increasingly materialistic world.
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mortal world
Her song of farewell to the mortal world cries out that her sentence is too hard and too cruel.
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multipolar world
Our aim is to help create a multipolar world.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
mundane world
A ' supermundane reality ' is one that exceeds the mundane world revealed by sense perception.
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natural world
However, in the natural world, images of objects often overlap.
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outer world
The outer world is figured as a different nation.
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parallel world
She lived a parallel existence in a parallel world.
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post-apocalyptic world
Set in a post-apocalyptic world, the series chronicles the year 1999 in short novels which represent individual months of the year.
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postwar world
A sense, rightly or not, that the promises of the postwar world were unfulfilled.
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racing world
The only sector of the racing world which is doing really well is that comprised of bookmakers.
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secular world
The secular world evolved and lived in close proximity to religion.
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sporting world
The report rightly draws attention to negative phenomena in the sporting world.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
three-dimensional world
Generally speaking, it is the invariants in the external three-dimensional world that have been of the most significance for our ancestors.
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turbulent world
In such a turbulent world it would be unwise unilaterally to divest ourselves of this protection without assurance of satisfactory reciprocation.
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underdeveloped world
The senator noted that, in the postwar world, the whole concept of foreign aid, especially to the underdeveloped world, was relatively new.
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undeveloped world
If we want to hold the uncommitted and undeveloped world, it is not better propaganda or more security measures that we want.
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virtual world
The virtual world is projected onto a video display terminal.
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waking world
So we are adding two new scenes which take place in the waking world.
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western world
This is the materially based civilization of the western world.
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whole world
He nourishes the whole world.
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world centre
It is also a world centre of equine and canine research.
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world champion
He has been world champion on three successive occasions.
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world domination
He also notes that if human-like intelligence allowed world domination, then at least some animals should by now have developed it, even without language.
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world heritage
The archeological map of the world heritage site is a remarkable document.
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world hunger
In perhaps an overly optimistic push, proponents of genetic engineering promise to conquer world hunger.
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world of academia
I believe that the world of academia, research and universities can also help with this.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
world organisation
What can collective security do, in the present state of national feeling and of world organisation?
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world organization
To return for a moment to the world organization.
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world population
There is nothing new about the fact that the world population is growing old.
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world premiere
The context of the rest of the concert, it should be said, had a peculiar effect on the relevance of the world premiere.
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world ranking
That is why we are 18th in the world ranking of relative gross domestic product.
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world renown
They built up their world renown, in the main, upon the distribution of coal to the four corners of the world.
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world tour
A major turning point in the company's history was the six-month world tour which was undertaken in 1964.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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