ALIEN RACE collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of alien and race
alien
adjective
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/ˈeɪ.li.ən/us
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/ˈeɪ.li.ən/
relating to creatures from ...
race
noun
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/reɪs/us
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/reɪs/
a competition in which all the competitors try to be the fastest and to ...
Examples of alien race
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People will almost certainly want to communicate with an alien race if we know it exists.
Is there a precise definition of an "alien race"?
They are going to remain here as an alien race in our midst for ever.
To those distant islanders, the people on the mainland are a remote and alien race.
Colossus is later resurrected by an alien race.
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Spawn are an alien race that rely on numbers.
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I object to spending this large amount of money to put an alien race into an alien land.
The remaining humans band together to reclaim the planet back from the alien race.
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Give not your glory to another, your privileges to an alien race.
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Tension arises with the threat of a hostile alien race that appears.
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We learn that they are an alien race that sent the nanites.
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In practice, they were handled just as another hostile alien race.
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And they completely dominate the 3rd alien race that they do not share traits with.
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It offers an unusually sympathetic portrayal of an alien race on a very strange planet.
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However, a hostile tentacle alien race had been growing inside the core.
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This leads the humans to assume that he was raised by the local alien race.
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These people had lived in a technocratic society recovering from a war with an alien race.
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Another alien race establishes itself on earth, but is followed by an enemy ship and destroyed.
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Humans are enslaved by an alien race via mind control devices.
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They are described repeatedly as an alien race, but no one knows where they come from.
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This ship is the last hope of humanity in a war against an alien race.
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It activates, and a message from an apparent alien race is played back.
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The few survivors are plucked from the surface of their dying world by an alien race, the oankali.
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In addition, each world also has a competing alien race which is trying to colonize the same planet.
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The flame reveals itself to be one of an ancient alien race who originated in the photosphere of the sun.
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