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- adverb In a way or manner that is
recognisable .
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Examples
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“Cruithen” is recognisably the Irish word “Cruithne” and “tuaith” is from the Irish “tuath” meaning a people or tribe and their territory.
Archive 2007-12-01 Carla 2007
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“Cruithen” is recognisably the Irish word “Cruithne” and “tuaith” is from the Irish “tuath” meaning a people or tribe and their territory.
The Picts (or Cruithne, or Albans): What's in a name? Carla 2007
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He is recognisably human, true, but the human body, with its curves and trim little bum, has been made-over to the angular machine: it is an armoured exoskeleton.
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Yet what was once recognisably absurd has become absurdly recognisable.
Why Absolutely Fabulous now looks absolutely prescient | Paul Flynn 2011
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When Dawes comes to meet me at the Castle climbing centre in north London, he is still recognisably the young man from the videos, heavier but still compact with large shoulders.
Johnny Dawes: 'It's about doing something that's fun… and impossible' 2012
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But his younger cousin Franklin Roosevelt's accent sounds entirely recognisably northeastern to me:
Linkspam for 10-10-2009 nwhyte 2009
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Of rival school ideologies, Gove's recognisably traditionalist approach might, of course, appeal to more parents than the happiness lessons, Caryl Churchill and black history months of the Labour years.
Only a sadist would inflict Dryden on our schoolchildren Catherine Bennett 2010
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The bodies, objects and surfaces were recognisably 21st century, but details and composition seemed oddly out of time, not least because the imagery was excised from print magazines and not from the internet, but also because the completed works so readily recalled Linder's first photomontage experiments.
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It is also understood that at least one Church school no longer observes the requirement to have an act of daily collective worship that is “consistently and recognisably Christian”.
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He is recognisably Ianto from the start, but (of course) more so when in character, and also carries a conviction that lifts the various character moments and vivid descriptive passages tremendously.
July Books 1) Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck nwhyte 2009
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