dramatic change
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdramaticandchange
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dramatic
adjective
uk/drəˈmæt.ɪk/us/drəˈmæt̬.ɪk/
very sudden or noticeable, or full of action ...
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change
noun
uk/tʃeɪndʒ/us/tʃeɪndʒ/
the act of becoming different, or the result of something ...
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(Definition ofdramaticandchangefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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With this kind of variation there could bedramaticchangein the sequence of events that follow.
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Figure 8 shows thedramaticchangein conformation of an isolated tetraloop receptor as compared to a tetraloop-tetraloop receptor interaction.
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One outcome of that was adramaticchangein financial inflows.
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Another 25 years later, in the early 2000s, there was adramaticchangein perceptions once again.
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One would think that such adramaticchangein regulation would, in some way, feed back into mental activity.
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The causes of thisdramaticchangeare far from clear.
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This requires adramaticchangein culture within a discipline which up till now has led a sheltered existence within the safe domain of science.
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However, this study also shows that tribes were not kept intact but underwent adramaticchangein their function and nature.
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The speech community is undergoingdramaticchangenot only in terms of frequency of these intensifiers but also lexical preference by speaker age.
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All these changes, occurring as they did in one generation, underlined the fact that conversion broughtdramaticchange.
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Maturation producesdramaticchangein the way individuals are treated by peers, parents, siblings, and authorities.
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From these values a mostdramaticchangeis exhibited at the second derivative of the current at the null.
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In contrast to the fertilised oocytes, it is interesting that the oocytes stimulated parthenogenetically did not show any suchdramaticchange.
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The mostdramaticchangeobserved is the reduction in the percentage of eterodemotes as solitaries.
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However, most building types, commercial office, residential, retail, housing and others, are under greater risk of falling into circumstances that compeldramaticchange.
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There has been adramaticchangeduring the 1970s in the proportions of women currently married and never married in both islands.
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The mostdramaticchangethat took place during the war scene had such a cathartic effect on the audience that it is worthy of comment.
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Immediately before and during the initial stages of the acrosome reaction adramaticchangetakes place in the plasma membrane, over the entire acrosome.
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