distinct stage

collocation in English

meaningsofdistinctandstage

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distinct
adjective
uk
/dɪˈstɪŋkt/
us
/dɪˈstɪŋkt/
clearly noticeable; that ...
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stage
noun[C]
uk
/steɪdʒ/
us
/steɪdʒ/
a part of an activity or a period ...
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(Definition ofdistinctandstagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdistinct stage

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The sources do not each contain adistinctstagein an organic process of growth, development, and decline.
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And why invoke, as adistinctstage, "use of symbol position to convey basic semantic relations"?
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Thus, in traditional interpretations, perseveration is seen as adistinctstagein cognitive development: that of incomplete object representation.
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Selection is best understood as adistinctstageof the broader adaptive process.
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With the growing labor (and, increasingly, consumption) demands of industrial economies, youth came to be perceived as adistinctstagein the life course associated with a distinct subculture.
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As the idea of "childhood" as a qualitativelydistinctstageof life began to take hold, 19th-century psychiatrists began to express limited interest in the possibility of childhood insanity.
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Project definition is adistinctstagefor which separate approval is required: expenditure on that stage is separate from expenditure on full development or production.
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Frankfort, argue that mythopoeic thought characterizes adistinctstageof human thought that differs fundamentally from modern, scientific thought.
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There are other examples of the difficulty of ascribing specific kinematic or kinetic parameters to distinct stages of planning and control.
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It is convenient to consider this development as occurring in at least four distinct stages.
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Symptoms were found to emerge in two distinct stages.
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The geochemical characteristics and temporal distributions of the eruptive products suggest two distinct stages of melt production.
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The authors do well to remind us that there are two distinct stages to empathy - one perceptual/cognitive, and one behavioral.
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The key idea in multi-stage programming is the use of simple annotations to allow the programmer to break down a computation into distinct stages.
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We propose that small-field visual motion is computed in two distinct stages.
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Each of these scholars provides a strong case against the view that compensatory lengthening is always decomposable into two distinct stages.
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Its separation of non-evaluative and evaluative beliefs into distinct stages is dubious.
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We find this response problematic, however, because it seems to confuse two distinct stages in the criminal trial.
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There were four distinct stages in its evolution.
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