voyage of discovery

collocation in English

meaningsofvoyageanddiscovery

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voyage
noun[C]
uk
/ˈvɔɪ.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈvɔɪ.ɪdʒ/
a long journey, especially ...
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discovery
noun
uk
/dɪˈskʌv.ər.i/us
/dɪˈskʌv.ɚ.i/
the process of finding information, a place, or an object, especially for the first time, or the thing that ...
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(Definition ofvoyageanddiscoveryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I thought that it would be avoyageofdiscovery.
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Was it really a greatvoyageofdiscoveryto benefit future mankind?
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I am sure that they will join us in thatvoyageofdiscovery.
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Every second of his music is avoyageofdiscovery.
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Thatvoyageofdiscoveryis not just a discovery of the enjoyment of the arts—although that is important.
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I believe that our education ought to be avoyageofdiscoveryand not an exercise in keeping safely together.
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She is a former teacher with a lifelong commitment to education and no need of a belatedvoyageofdiscovery.
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Both subjects are ingeniously explored in an astrobiologicalvoyageofdiscoverythrough the invention of a machine, which is central to the book's concern with the dialectic of evolutionary time.
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They see in her a gift, but must let her make her ownvoyageofdiscovery.
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It was news to me, but reading the newspapers gets more like avoyageofdiscoveryof things that are not so, every day.
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It is sometimes as well to remember that people who have made a personalvoyageofdiscovery, as he has, have a contribution to make.
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We should not be surprised that, following thatvoyageofdiscovery, voter turnout has plummeted, especially in seats that are regarded as safe.
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That remark made me realise that one should ask for the name of the happy and balmy shore from whence we set out on ourvoyageofdiscoveryin 1979.
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One reviewer found this a rather inconvenient method, complaining that the finding of the author of a particular sketch often involved avoyageofdiscoverythrough the entire list.
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