family resemblance
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffamilyandresemblance
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family
noun
uk/ˈfæm.əl.i/us/ˈfæm.əl.i/
a group of people who are related to each other, such as a mother, a father, and ...
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resemblance
noun[C or U]
uk/rɪˈzem.bləns/us/rɪˈzem.bləns/
the fact that two people or things look like each other or are similar in some ...
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(Definition offamilyandresemblancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffamily resemblance
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Given these close ties it is not surprising to discover a certainfamilyresemblancebetween the librettos of operas and ballet-pantomimes.
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The problem is called "the underdetermination of the extension" offamilyresemblanceconcepts.
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We suggest that middles (and unaccusatives) share afamilyresemblancewith unergatives.
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Although arguments about asset specificity, which bear a strongfamilyresemblance, are becoming more prevalent.
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Evolution proceeds by selection between rows of color schemes that share thefamilyresemblance, which results from having the same integral color.
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A clearfamilyresemblanceto (c), but there are more cells so that the pattern is smaller in scale.
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I argue that "religion" is afamilyresemblancenotion built around the idea of supernatural agency.
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Consequently, the evidence of a strongfamilyresemblancein the face of the central, uncrowned woman, might indicate a royal sister or a close relation.
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The key to handling the challenges posed by natural categories andfamilyresemblanceis to look carefully at the process of perceptual learning.
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Or why they went democratic in the way they did, adopting institutional regimes that bear a markedfamilyresemblance?
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Although the new models exhibit afamilyresemblanceto each other, it may be fruitful to look at possible differences.
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One possible solution is the idea that there is a basic predicate that determines the extension of afamilyresemblanceconcept.
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These logics seem to have a 'familyresemblance', a certain relation of affinity with ' corruption '-type practices, but are not in themselves corruption.
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It had only a distant "familyresemblance" to the concept of energy in modern science.
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Since a quota can be satisfied without having any item be shared by all the qualified members, quota terms arefamilyresemblanceterms.
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The notion offamilyresemblanceleaves the boundaries of any concept open to an infinite potential number of entities, and therefore, we might say, everything resembles everything else.
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There are no measurements, in part because the strongfamilyresemblancebetween patterns from one sequence, taken weeks apart, seemed at the time conclusive evidence of flow stability.
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But since precautionary principles bear afamilyresemblanceto insurance problems, there are places where economic analyses of past examples of use of precautionary principles could be of interest.
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