The noun "rain" doesn't collocate with the adjective "busy."
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Collocate
/ˈkɒləkeɪt/
Synonyms for "collocate" (84 found)
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to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles
Source: wiktionary
that S. Peter will have transferred from his episcopate of Antioch to Rome, and in Rome the Church with the episcopate, the primacy likewise itself, and himself the rock of faith and the Church to have been constituted and collocated
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A list of collocations to accompany the SVL words providing their important lexico-grammatical associations could therefore be a useful supplementary resource. Thus, we took an extra step not present in previously developed academic wordlists and created lists of each word's discipline-specific collocates.
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