strange land
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstrangeandland
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strange
adjective
uk/streɪndʒ/us/streɪndʒ/
unusual and unexpected, or difficult ...
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land
noun
uk/lænd/us/lænd/
the surface of the earth that is not covered ...
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(Definition ofstrangeandlandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Readers are invited into thisstrangelandto join the authors in exploring whether there is a developmental psychology of late life.
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It is a journey away from close networks of family and friends, to the loneliness of being a stranger in astrangeland.
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They are, in fact, strangers trying to move in astrangeland.
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The position is now very different, and they tend to feel more and more like strangers in astrangeland.
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The rabbit started to run, in astrangelandwith the two whippets bearing down upon it; and the rabbit never had a chance.
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He becomes a stranger in astrangeland, and, not being a citizen, he cannot obtain a house on a municipal estate.
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He is in astrangeland, a stranger and afraid in a world he never made.
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The asylum seeker will be relieved of the responsibility, which must be quite considerable in astrangeland, of finding his own accommodation.
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I know of nothing more distressing than a person arriving in astrangelandand finding no work available.
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I said when going onstrangelandyou could not tell whether there are too many rabbits on the land or not.
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They arrive in crowds, seemingly lost in a strange city in astrangeland.
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These men are forced to go into astrangeland.
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It is not easy to overcome at once the difficulties connected with the settlement of people in astrangeland.
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Strangers in astrangeland, homeless in someone else's homeland they had fought to protect, they did not ask for much.
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There they were, children in astrangeland, taught by teachers with different methods, in unfamiliar schools.
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They live in astrangeland, but they follow their own customs, language and religion.
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There is also the very real difficulty that people in astrangelandare prone to be caught by rapacious landlords—a fact which further contributes to the problems.
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Yet, for obvious social reasons, because they may feel strangers in astrangeland, they prefer to congregate where those who have come before them have gone.
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Can we make sure that we are giving them every chance to develop their own gifts and personalities in what is for them astrangeland?
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The story deals with a man who awakens without memory in astrangelandand journeys through it to find the woman he woke alongside.
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