alien race

collocation in English

meaningsofalienandrace

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alien
adjective
uk
/ˈeɪ.li.ən/us
/ˈeɪ.li.ən/
relating to creatures from ...
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race
noun
uk
/reɪs/us
/reɪs/
a competition in which all the competitors try to be the fastest and to ...
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(Definition ofalienandracefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofalien race

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People will almost certainly want to communicate with analienraceif we know it exists.
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Is there a precise definition of an "alienrace"?
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They are going to remain here as analienracein our midst for ever.
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To those distant islanders, the people on the mainland are a remote andalienrace.
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Colossus is later resurrected by analienrace.
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Spawn are analienracethat rely on numbers.
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I object to spending this large amount of money to put analienraceinto an alien land.
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The remaining humans band together to reclaim the planet back from thealienrace.
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Give not your glory to another, your privileges to analienrace.
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Tension arises with the threat of a hostilealienracethat appears.
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We learn that they are analienracethat sent the nanites.
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In practice, they were handled just as another hostilealienrace.
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And they completely dominate the 3rdalienracethat they do not share traits with.
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It offers an unusually sympathetic portrayal of analienraceon a very strange planet.
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However, a hostile tentaclealienracehad been growing inside the core.
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This leads the humans to assume that he was raised by the localalienrace.
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These people had lived in a technocratic society recovering from a war with analienrace.
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Anotheralienraceestablishes itself on earth, but is followed by an enemy ship and destroyed.
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Humans are enslaved by analienracevia mind control devices.
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They are described repeatedly as analienrace, but no one knows where they come from.
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This ship is the last hope of humanity in a war against analienrace.
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It activates, and a message from an apparentalienraceis played back.
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The few survivors are plucked from the surface of their dying world by analienrace, the oankali.
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In addition, each world also has a competingalienracewhich is trying to colonize the same planet.
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The flame reveals itself to be one of an ancientalienracewho originated in the photosphere of the sun.
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