"useful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Having shown how to do science without using numbers, Field proceeded to rehabilitate mathematics as a kind of useful fiction.
- But the king's presence was a useful fiction in establishing a suitable royal image.
- Nevertheless, it's a useful fiction - for writers and readers alike.
- The lie made me shake with humiliation, but the doctor collaborated in this mutually useful fiction.
- But this is a remote, ironic return that accepts that it is a useful fiction.
- The notion of religion as a "useful fiction" is not a new one, of course.
- True, the man does find some dogma a useful fiction.
- Eccentrics and epicycles came to be thought of as useful fictions.
- That's nonsense, of course; but it's a useful fiction.
- Although her birthdate is generally given as 1820, this may have been a useful fiction, as baptism records give the 1811 date.
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