refreshing change

collocation in English

meaningsofrefreshingandchange

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refreshing
adjective
uk
/rɪˈfreʃ.ɪŋ/
us
/rɪˈfreʃ.ɪŋ/
making you feel less hot ...
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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 ofrefreshingandchangefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is arefreshingchangefrom writing that presents selected quotes from interviews to illustrate particular themes or support an argument (including my own).
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Her lack of condescension marks arefreshingchangefrom standard histories of design.
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The realism which he introduced into his remarks came to me as arefreshingchange.
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Her speech provided arefreshingchangeof direction from the way that the debate had proceeded earlier.
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That would be arefreshingchangefrom some of the programmes on offer today.
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It gives me great delight to agree with everything he says, which makes arefreshingchange.
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I am pleased to hear about thisrefreshingchangeof attitude towards cycling, which is long overdue.
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I was interested to hear one or two men say recently what arefreshingchangeit was to be fighting an enemy in uniform.
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It is indeed arefreshingchangethat speeches are modified in that respect.
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This is, however, arefreshingchangefor me.
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I wish that it were arefreshingchange.
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Is that not a welcome andrefreshingchangecompared with the 1060s and 1970s?
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She will bring arefreshingchangeto it.
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First, there is arefreshingchangein that he is now prepared to change his mind.
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I am delighted at therefreshingchangeon this occasion.
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Normally the argument is the other way round, so that was arefreshingchange.
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That is arefreshingchangefrom leaders and politicians who fill our screens with their rhetoric.
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We have heard about arefreshingchangeand policies designed to complement what is happening in society.
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Their can-do culture is arefreshingchangefrom the rather banal world in which we live.
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Your speech made arefreshingchangefrom what we have been hearing over the past few months.
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