recurrent theme
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrecurrentandtheme
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recurrent
adjective
uk/rɪˈkʌr.ənt/us/rɪˈkɝː.ənt/
happening again ...
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theme
noun[C]
uk/θiːm/us/θiːm/
the main subject of a talk, book, ...
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Examplesofrecurrent theme
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The lack of knowledge and information was arecurrenttheme.
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The importance of practice techniques being clearly understood was arecurrenttheme.
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As we shall see, this transformation-shrinkage-inverse transformation structure is arecurrentthemein modern statistical estimation.
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Are we done with therecurrentthemeof uncertainty?
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Arecurrentthemewas the impact of technologies on twentieth-century music and musical culture.
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Preservation of constituency of this type is arecurrentthemein the chapter.
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Arecurrentthemein the musical references is the relationship between fantasy and reality.
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A majorrecurrentthemein all the groups was that positive ageing means having good health.
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It is arecurrentthemeof cultural interpretation of landscapes that accessibility is played off against visibility.
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Most initiatives (and the title of the volume) focus on wildlife, but land tenure is arecurrentthemein the book as well.
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The social importance of periodic life-cycle celebrations in particular is arecurrentthemein the collected testimonies.
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Onerecurrenttheme, however, is individual responsibility for salvation, which can be ensured through the performance of good actions in this world.
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Arecurrentthemeis the desirability of whiteness (except in one case, as we shall see below).
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For the older generation there is arecurrenttheme: economic survival comes at the high price of increased vulnerability and the danger of social abandonment.
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Arecurrentthemeis the relatively high rate of effectiveness displayed by this group in planning their families which is attributable to the reliability of the contraceptive techniques they employ.
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Arecurrentthemein oral testimonies is the use of alliances of protection by weaker leaders who sought the support of more powerful neighbors.
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When discussing the lack of information about available services, arecurrentthemewas the perceived rural-urban contrast in access to social services.
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