competing explanation

collocation in English

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compete
verb[I]
uk
/kəmˈpiːt/us
/kəmˈpiːt/
to try to be more successful than someone or ...
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explanation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
the details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy ...
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There was very little method overlap between family predictors and child outcomes, thus minimizing shared method variance as acompetingexplanationfor the results.
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This simple empirical analysis indicates that media openness provides acompetingexplanation.
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Acompetingexplanationfor the island and small-country effects can be drawn from the new theory of economic growth.
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Acompetingexplanationfor the results of the present study appeals to the notion of language exposure.
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Competing explanations for associations between marital status and health.
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Two competing explanations of the sectional tensions inflaming the nation emerged even before the war.
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Although being only one of many competing explanations for the phenomenon, it is the only one that is widely accepted by mainstream scientists and historians.
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There are two competing explanations for the origin of the term "badger game".
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What does the existence of competing explanations mean for that goal?
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Experimentation is the step in the scientific method that helps people decide between two or more competing explanations or hypotheses.
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In the history of competing explanations this is not the case.
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While many aspects of the tip-of-the-tongue state remain unclear, there are two major competing explanations for its occurrence, the "direct-access view" and the "inferential view".
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In the book he distinguishes between 3 general modes of competing explanations in order of priority: regularity, chance, and design.
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Second, the claim that this knowledge occurs through preventive marker signals is not supported by competing explanations of the psychophysiology generated profile.
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Lew offered competing explanations for what happened next.
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