familiar theme

collocation in English

meaningsoffamiliarandtheme

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familiar
adjective
uk
/fəˈmɪl.i.ər/us
/fəˈmɪl.i.jɚ/
easy to recognize because of being seen, met, heard, ...
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theme
noun[C]
uk
/θiːm/us
/θiːm/
the main subject of a talk, book, ...
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(Definition offamiliarandthemefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffamiliar theme

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Science as fashionable pastime has become afamiliarthemein eighteenth-century studies.
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Yet, for such afamiliarthemeit remains curiously undeveloped.
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Though clothed in post-structuralist language, the address takes up afamiliartheme: the problem of national identity.
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Anotherfamiliarthemeis in the wide differences there are between women, with great inequalities according to their marital and employment status.
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It is a fairlyfamiliarthemeof farmers that they are exploited by supermarkets.
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What we are saying in many cases is a reiteration of afamiliartheme.
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Afamiliarthemeof the debate centred on juvenile crime.
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Lobsters are not afamiliarthemeof poetry.
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The second thing comes back to afamiliartheme.
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This is afamiliartheme: along with a review, a quango.
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A considerable array of different issues seems to be grouped together, but there seems to be afamiliartheme.
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This is afamiliartheme.
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That sounds very much like a variation of afamiliartheme, but it is something very much more serious in the case of approved societies.
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New clause 1 is a new variation on afamiliartheme.
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I return to myfamiliartheme.
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That is afamiliartheme.
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It deals with afamiliartheme.
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Destruction and disruption have been afamiliartheme.
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Their forces are, as they say, "living from day to day financially", and being told—afamiliartheme to us—that there must be compensatory cuts rather than budget increases.
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