area of inquiry
collocation in Englishmeaningsofareaandinquiry
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area
noun
uk/ˈeə.ri.ə/us/ˈer.i.ə/
a particular part of a place, piece of land, ...
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inquiry
noun
uk/ɪnˈkwaɪə.ri/us/ˈɪŋ.kwɚ.i/
(the process of asking) ...
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(Definition ofareaandinquiryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofarea of inquiry
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It must surely make sense to widen the ombudsman'sareaofinquiry.
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It is anareaofinquirythat in itself deserves to be pursued more intensively in future research.
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The history of these evolving relationships has proved to be a very rewardingareaofinquiry.
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They extend the boundaries of the field and reconfigure it as anareaofinquiry.
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In short, the study of second language writing has become a legitimateareaofinquiryin its own right.
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We focus on three concerns within this broadareaofinquiry.
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This integration of studies of learning and social behavior can contribute to eachareaofinquiry.
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The interactive alignment model opens a new and excitingareaofinquiryinto language processing.
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Further, thisareaofinquiryprovided an avenue in the cognitive literature for examining emotion words, empirically, in their own right.
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Both strands of research have been fruitful, not only in yielding important findings, but also in drawing new researchers into theareaofinquiry.
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This primarily theoretical paper introduces the qualitative aspects of the problem and leaves open the challenging technical issues which are sure to follow in this importantareaofinquiry.
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Whether this means that these legislatures had positive or negative impacts on the policy process and whether such impacts were systematic should be the nextareaofinquiry.
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Of course, the development of women's studies and evolution of feminist theory in the 1970s and 1980s had a significant impact on thisareaofinquiry.
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Risager succeeds in negating the propensity for reductionism in this richareaofinquiryby disentangling language, languaculture, discourse, and culture, concepts that clutter the relationship between language and culture.
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Another philosophy class looked at and discussed fossils, which led to creation issues and the other problematic philosophical issues inherent in thatareaofinquiry.
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That gives the estate agent a difficultareaofinquiry.
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This is a wholeareaofinquiryand concern that has come up in various forms during this debate.
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Theareaofinquiryis difficult and delicate.
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