exciting thing

collocation in English

meaningsofexcitingandthing

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exciting
adjective
uk
/ɪkˈsaɪ.tɪŋ/us
/ɪkˈsaɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
making you ...
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thing
noun
uk
/θɪŋ/us
/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition ofexcitingandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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To me, the reallyexcitingthingin contemporary neuroscience is the confirmation of the fruitfulness of a conceptual nervous system.
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It is the mostexcitingthingthat has happened to me today.
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It is, indeed, an outstanding andexcitingthingto do.
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I do not think it is a veryexcitingthingto look at any way.
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Theexcitingthingabout the initiative is that it is only just starting.
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The onlyexcitingthingto happen is perhaps that there is a great big crash.
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It is the mostexcitingthingthat has ever happened to me.
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I took my nephew there—it was the mostexcitingthingin the whole of his holiday.
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But the mostexcitingthingabout today's debate has been the message of hope and of expectation that has been a common theme running through so many of the speeches.
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This is anexcitingthing.
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I have seen a little, but only a little, of automatic ticket collection and automatic train operation, and it is quite anexcitingthing.
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The mostexcitingthingabout television is that it has made life much more interesting and entertaining, extending our vision in the most marvellous way.
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Technology, after all, is only a tool and the trulyexcitingthingabout it is the opportunities which it offers us.
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Theexcitingthingis that for the first time it will be near a population centre, where there is no strong objection being made on the ground of amenity.
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Theexcitingthingabout biofuels, biomass and biogas is that there is a great future for it.
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To a large number of people, service on a jury is the mostexcitingthingthat ever happens in their lives.
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It is quite anexcitingthingto see how these aspects of new technique under good project management, under good management, do succeed.
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Theexcitingthingthat is happening is that in a number of our major and basic industries real progress is being made.
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Theexcitingthingwas that for the first time in my life, and perhaps in the lives of all of us, socialism was off the political agenda in this country.
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The mostexcitingthingthat has come out of this debate is the realisation that a great deal of change of the right sort is going on.
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