crucial distinction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcrucialanddistinction
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crucial
adjective
uk/ˈkruː.ʃəl/us/ˈkruː.ʃəl/
extremely important ...
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distinction
noun
uk/dɪˈstɪŋk.ʃən/us/dɪˈstɪŋk.ʃən/
a difference between two ...
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(Definition ofcrucialanddistinctionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This objection overlooks acrucialdistinction, however.
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In our analysis of this phenomenon, we draw acrucialdistinctionbetween synthetic and analytic negation.
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The concept of fractional integration generalizes thecrucialdistinctionbetween stationary and non-stationary data.
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A study of wh-question acquisition, therefore, should take thiscrucialdistinctioninto account.
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From the point of view of printer and publisher this was an absolutelycrucialdistinction.
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The latter metaphor illuminated hiscrucialdistinctionbetween conditional and unconditional reflexes.
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But the ancients had elaborated on thecrucialdistinctionbetween reference and deixis to some extent.
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That is thecrucialdistinction.
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There is acrucialdistinction.
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That is acrucialdistinction.
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This shows that thecrucialdistinctionis determined by lexical category rather than by a semantic factor like stativity.
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Instead, thecrucialdistinctionbetween suffix types depends on the prosodic domain to which they are attached.
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Nor is it adequate to make thiscrucialdistinctionwith respect to the immune system and learning.
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There is acrucialdistinctionhere.
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We are dealing with acrucialdistinction.
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Is not that thecrucialdistinction?
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There is acrucialdistinctionbetween the two.
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That, to my mind, is thecrucialdistinction.
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I submit that that is thecrucialdistinction.
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It subverts the left by arguing that thecrucialdistinctionis between consumers and producers, rather than between capitalists and proletarians.
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The narrator makes acrucialdistinctionhere between fantasy and strategy: strategy is constituted in misfires, in "checks," which fantasy ignores.
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Thecrucialdistinctionbetween the two enterprises is to be located in their different approaches to the study of political concepts.
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Current practice makes it next to impossible for judges to say anything to jurors about how to draw thatcrucialdistinction.
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He reasons that thecrucialdistinctioncould be explicated (by the source of the claims if by no one else) and the appearance of inconsistency thereby removed.
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