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In the world of language, there are certain trends in terms of words that frequently co-occur in phrases or sentences together, some-thing called collocation.
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Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
By using a liquid fuel dissolved in molten salt, the system offers several inherent advantages for industrial collocation.
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Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Feb. 2026
Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
By using a liquid fuel dissolved in molten salt, the system offers several inherent advantages for industrial collocation.
—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for collocation
Noun
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His Raising Cane’s work, titled Cane’s Anthem, continues the Pop-lite aesthetic, utilizing phrases and images that appear to be culled from the mass media.
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Anyway, this phrase survived my query letter, made it into my agent’s submission letter to editors, and ended up in my editor’s copy on the back of the book.
Noun
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On the one hand, the translation serves as a source for the idioms of nineteenth-century English; on the other, as evidence of the ideas that the translator held about a Colombian woman writer.
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Out of love for different sound systems, different writing systems, different grammars, different sets of concepts, different idioms, different ways of seeing the world.
Noun
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Confucius says—an old-fashioned locution, perhaps, but appropriate here—never to take interest in feats of strength.
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That mysterious locution and the lack of additional details raised the possibility that something more than the sniffles might be ailing the Boss.
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“Collocation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collocation. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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