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单词 highly
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highly
(hli )
1. adverb [ADVERB adjective]
Highly is used before some adjectives to mean 'very'.
Mr Singh was a highly successful civil engineer.
It seems highly unlikely that she ever existed.
...the highly controversial nuclear energy programme.
Synonyms: extremely, very, greatly, seriously [informal]  
2. adverb [ADVERB -ed] B2
You use highly to indicate that someone has an important position in an organization or set of people.
...a highly placed government advisor.
...highly ranked soccer teams.
3. adverb [ADVERB -ed] B2
If someone is highly paid, they receive a large salary.
He was the most highly paid member of staff.
4. adverb [ADVERB after verb, ADVERB -ed]
If you think highly of something or someone, you think they are very good indeed.
Daphne and Michael thought highly of the school.
...one of the most highly regarded chefs in the French capital.
Synonyms: favourably, well, warmly, enthusiastically  
Collocations:
highly improbable
It was, John thought, highly improbable that Gaisford could have faced criminal proceedings.
David Fraser The Killing Times (Treason in arms) (1986)
He said he might stop smiling if his side lose six on the trot, but right now, such a run feels highly improbable.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
When he then birdied the 6th to tie for the lead, something highly improbable appeared to be unfolding.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Not only was it regarded as supremely self-serving, but both outcomes were highly improbable.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
There seems no urgent case to change a winning formula but a repeat of the blissful weather and perfect ground of last October is highly improbable.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
highly inappropriate
In the context they are making money off the shirts, that's highly inappropriate.
The Sun
It would have been highly inappropriate had he attempted to do so.
Times, Sunday Times
People plant highly inappropriate trees without any forethought.
Times, Sunday Times
The company would give no details of the discussions alleged to have taken place but said the pair 'were engaged in business activity that was highly inappropriate'.
Times, Sunday Times
They also committed guerilla gigs in shopping centres, parks and other highly inappropriate places.
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highly influential
Their comicbook savagery and highly stylised aesthetic remain highly influential even today.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Whether parents exercise is also highly influential.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He also adopted an original and highly influential view of opera performance.
Susie Gilbert and Jay Shir A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945 (2003)
Perhaps we can rescue a notion of media effect by suggesting that effects take place at the margin and such marginal changes can be highly influential.
Collins, Richard Television - policy and culture (1990)
He has won the support of a highly influential voice in American politics.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
highly intelligent
He's also highly intelligent while she always claimed to be 'as thick as two short planks'.
The Sun (2008)
He is highly intelligent and quick to take advantage of any opportunities.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
There's something very creative about his art and you can see he is highly intelligent.
The Sun (2012)
The result is both highly intelligent and often haunting.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He was a highly intelligent commercial lawyer and then judge who suddenly found himself having to grind out fact after fact from nuggets of information painstakingly.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
highly leveraged
Highly leveraged institutions such as credit hedge funds must have onerous disclosure requirements.
Times, Sunday Times
United last summer in a highly leveraged deal that demands revenue increases, will be tempted to hike ticket prices.
Times, Sunday Times
The company had a torrid year after floating and became an emblem of highly leveraged private equity businesses.
Times, Sunday Times
Nevertheless, he backed a highly leveraged $479 million bid for it and managed to float it in 1992 with a value of $102 million.
Times, Sunday Times
A highly leveraged bank would at least have a diversified portfolio of assets.
Times, Sunday Times
highly likely
Unless you regularly hold state banquets or fancy dinner parties, it's highly likely you'll be short of dining chairs.
The Sun (2011)
It is also highly likely to give her malignant skin cancer.
The Sun (2012)
It is highly likely that the char absorbs some of the combustion products of the gas.
Randolph, Theron G. & Moss, Ralph W. (contributor) An Alternative Approach to Allergies (1990)
Councils that are having to find substantial savings are highly likely to rely on their in-house services rather than give the adoption task to external agencies.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Officials admitted it was'highly likely' a partial meltdown had already occurred.
The Sun (2011)
highly lucrative
Public speaking can also be a highly lucrative postscript to a successful career.
Times, Sunday Times
Golf club memberships, which can run to 250,000 apiece, are also considered highly lucrative.
Times, Sunday Times
Not to mention the magical 'night-sky' roof that will be priceless in the development of the highly lucrative indoor game.
Times, Sunday Times
It has proved to be a masterstroke, though, as well as highly lucrative, thought to be worth about 75 million.
Times, Sunday Times
Realising that he was working in a highly lucrative market, he set himself up in business and became a successful agent.
Times, Sunday Times
highly mobile
She now represents a highly mobile and formidable potential strike force, one of the most flexible fighting ships in the world.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Insects are excellent candidates because they are small, highly mobile and gifted with comparatively simple anatomies.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Dendritic filopodia are thin, long, and highly mobile protrusions functioning as spine precursors.
Yutaka Furutani, Yoshihiro Yoshihara, Yoshihiro Yoshihara 2018, 'Proteomic Analysis of Dendritic Filopodia-Rich Fraction Isolated by Telencephalin and Vitronectin Interaction', Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience
highly motivated
A lot of players were highly motivated, myself included, to put down a marker.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Britain's largest high-street shoe repairer has opened branches in two prisons in an attempt to cut reoffending and provide highly motivated employees for its stores.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
You can't blame companies for hiring cheaper, highly motivated immigrant labour with lower expectations about wages, working conditions and pensions.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
I've since found out he's also highly motivated, kindhearted and communicative.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
highly original
The highly original horror hit was a runaway underdog success story, earning a record-breaking $240 million on a shoestring budget, thanks largely to brilliant online marketing.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
But this highly original and beautifully crafted book suggests otherwise.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He suggested a highly original scheme for a flexible paper currency not convertible into hard money.
Garraty, John Arthur The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995)
This combination of worldly wisdom and deeply felt personal experience makes this a highly original and refreshing account of our current predicament.
The Times Literary Supplement (2015)
highly polished
By this time, he had developed into a highly polished ballroom dancer.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The combination of highly polished songcraft and outlaw chic made them one of the biggest-selling groups in rock history.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It was at the same time a highly polished and determinedly casual affair.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
highly popular
His writings were brilliant and, in his day, highly popular.
Times, Sunday Times
Your vase, which dates from about 1890, was a highly popular type, with its novel double walls and pierced, lobed panels.
Times, Sunday Times
Highly popular these days, increasingly simple to operate and extremely useful in terms of journey-planning and getting to places in good time.
Times, Sunday Times
As the sun goes deeper into your chart's most personal part, the brightest and strongest part of your character emerges and you are highly popular.
The Sun
Portraiture may have proved highly popular among spectators, but clearly it can be a great participant sport too.
Times,Sunday Times
highly prized
But the cave walls are encased with highly prized swiftlet nests, used in bird's-nest soup.
The Sun (2018)
The beluga, the osetra and the sevuga sturgeons are the most highly prized for their roe.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
These women considered themselves lucky to have such highly prized jobs during wartime.
The Sun (2016)
The tiny'wild' ones are the most highly prized of all.
The Sun (2013)
They are highly prized in Europe.
Smith, Drew Food Watch (1994)
highly probable
It's highly probable that fight will happen early next year.
The Sun
It's highly probable he will end his session with a pint of best.
Times, Sunday Times
It's highly probable, however, that the closing holes will provide more vivid fare.
Globe and Mail
The rule of prudence meant that gains should not be anticipated unless their realisation was highly probable.
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The regions in which the coins have been discovered do not overlap and it seems highly probable that the two rulers ruled in opposition from different regions.
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highly problematic
But having said all that, I find his advice highly problematic.
Christianity Today (2000)
Housing in Britain remains a highly problematic area and it is necessary to look more closely at certain aspects of it to understand this.
Brown, Muriel & Payne Sarah Introduction to Social Administration in Britain (1990)
The question of who should be given charge of preserving broad values and on what political conditions is of course highly problematic.
Low, Nicholas Politics, Planning and the State (1990)
highly professional
They are highly professional, relentlessly focused on achievement, with sophisticated data systems to track their students' and schools' progress.
Times, Sunday Times
But anyone who has visited an auction recently will know they are now highly professional operations.
The Sun
The government office - at the centre of the biggest tax fiasco on record - even boasted of its 'highly professional and efficient organisation'.
The Sun
The staff were exceptional: highly professional, going a long way to create a comfortable atmosphere, striking just the right balance between attentiveness and intrusion.
Times, Sunday Times
It was not the most polished, it certainly was not perfect — just highly professional and most definitely highly deserved.
The Sun
highly profitable
To the industrialists supplying the steel and to the owners of the shipyards, the battleship fleet plan could be presented as both patriotic and highly profitable.
Grenville, J. A. S. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century (1994)
Where on earth are clubs to fit in highly profitable foreign tours after preseason training?
The Sun (2014)
Another highly profitable niche is the greetings card industry.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Within ten years they had built a large and highly profitable wholesale business.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974)
They were running it like an international business and it is highly profitable.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
highly qualified
The restriction on mobility is becoming increasingly irksome to young, highly qualified knowledge people.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974)
Thousands of highly qualified young people abandon the country each year to hunt for jobs abroad.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Under the new plan, those few who can afford it will agree a tasty fee with a highly qualified financial planner.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
highly questionable
It is highly questionable whether the code strikes the right balance between informality and formality.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
What they do to redress inequality is highly questionable.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Whether this makes sense is highly questionable.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
In the quest to rapidly build collections, remains were sometimes collected under highly questionable ethical circumstances.
Smithsonian Mag (2017)
To pocket tens of millions of pounds in highly questionable administration fees on top of that is an insult.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
highly radioactive
But anyone visiting the site of the 1986 nuclear accident is warned to avoid the fungi, which are still highly radioactive because they eat radiation.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Furthermore, they will remain highly radioactive for 100,000 years.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Each reactor will produce about 20 tonnes of highly radioactive spent fuel per year, which will remain lethal for up to 100,000 years.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Some were drenched in water from the spent fuel tanks, which contain highly radioactive material.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
highly readable
Her book is highly readable, but there is something about it that doesn't quite hang together.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
These two highly readable books prove the point.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
These bits are highly readable and engaging.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
His observations are highly readable and we need a conservative opposition.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He has an eye for detail and a flair for narrative that makes it highly readable.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
highly relevant
This is a highly relevant point to bear in mind as we look at the actual play.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The results are highly relevant for medical application and further evaluation of nanomaterial biosafety.
Gonnissen D, Qu Y, Langer K, Öztürk C, Zhao Y, Chen C, Seebohm G, Dufer M, Fuchs H, Galla HJ, Riehemann K 2016, 'Comparison of cellular effects of starch-coated SPIONs and poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) matrix nanoparticles on human monocytes', International Journal of Nanomedicine
Notwithstanding this lack of attention, these structures are in fact highly relevant to theories of linearization and phrase structure.
Brian Hok-Shing Chan 2015, 'Portmanteau constructions, phrase structure and linearization', Frontiers in Psychology
highly respected
He said that the family were highly respected and hard-working.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
For one of the world's most highly respected coaches, it should be a doddle to sort it all out.
The Sun (2016)
He's a highly respected person and when he retires world football will miss him a lot.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
A highly respected British diver has died during the exploration of a shipwreck off the coast of Greece.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
To continue monitoring my mother, the doctors referred her to a highly respected teaching hospital.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
highly sceptical
But if he thought that was bad, he had not seen my email inbox, full of commentary that, if not hyperbolic, was highly sceptical.
Times, Sunday Times
But he was highly sceptical about the value of coaching services.
Times, Sunday Times
Experts remain highly sceptical about the opportunities for buying property below its true value.
Times, Sunday Times
In fact, they continue to remain highly sceptical of the use of video evidence - because they are concerned it will undermine the authority of referees!
The Sun
I have always been highly sceptical about the ability to find these sorts of amounts from efficiency or even, in the medium rather than long term, from reform.
Times, Sunday Times
highly selective
Suppliers are highly selective about whether they cut electricity or gas prices, and when.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
His dedication to poetry was total and highly selective.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In our in vivo syngeneic model of mesothelioma, a highly selective accumulation of the particles in the tumor was obtained.
Philippe Bertrand, Christophe Blanquart, Valérie Héroguez 2019, 'The ROMP: A Powerful Approach to Synthesize Novel pH-Sensitive Nanoparticles for Tumor Therapy', Biomolecules
We conclude that a potent and highly selective new trypanocide may be present in the fraction.
Weam Siheri, Godwin U. Ebiloma, John O. Igoli, Alexander I. Gray, Marco Biddau, Pilaslak Akrachalanont, Samya Alenezi, Mohammad A. Alwashih, RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel, Sylke Muller, Catherine E. Lawrence, James Fearnley, David G. Watson, Harry P. De Koning 2019, 'Isolation of a Novel Flavanonol and an Alkylresorcinol with Highly Potent Anti-Trypanosomal Activity from Libyan propolis', Molecules
highly sensitive
Private equity interest in such a highly sensitive state-owned asset could ruffle feathers.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Journal of Pain has found that people who are highly sensitive to stress and emotional situations are also significantly more likely to suffer from lower back pain.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
THE man behind the war logs leak is a homeless rebel devoted to spilling highly sensitive, confidential documents for the world to see.
The Sun (2010)
Some products such as health insurance are highly sensitive to price; most are not.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He was obviously a highly sensitive adolescent and his overbearing father hurt him deeply by constantly teasing him about his spotty complexion and calling him'big nose '.
The Sun (2009)
highly significant
It is highly significant that only in those countries where this figure is exceeded is coronary heart disease common.
Mervyn, Leonard Preventing Heart Disease (1987)
What looks like only a small difference is highly significant.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The variation among progenies for girth was highly significant in all locations examined.
Paulo de Souza Gonçalves, Adriano Tosoni da Eira Aguiar, Reginaldo Brito da Costa, Elaine Cristine Piffer Gonçalves, Erivaldo José Scaloppi Júnior, Roberto Botelho Ferraz Branco 2009, 'Genetic variation and realized genetic gain from rubber tree improvement Variação genética e ganhos obtidos por meio do melhoramento genético da seringueira', Scientia Agricola
highly skilled
It's hard to see why the highly skilled heroine needs to enter some kind of superspy training scheme.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Television audiences will enjoy the results of an unfairly uncelebrated process that is specialist, highly skilled and surprisingly creative.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
This equipment is not produced by highly skilled individual craftsmen.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974)
The quality varies as much as the content, ranging from grainy clips filmed with mobile phones to highly skilled animation.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
To be fair to Engineer Akbar's servant the goldsmith, Rind by name, was a highly skilled operative.
Shah, Idries KARA KUSH (2002)
highly sophisticated
Highly sophisticated rings are particularly strong at country house sales.
Times, Sunday Times
Working together, they designed a highly sophisticated research tool to examine the attitudes and behaviours of customers across 25 countries.
Times, Sunday Times
For highly sophisticated investors, there was information that would have enabled them to ask the appropriate questions.
Times, Sunday Times
Emails containing the malicious link are often highly sophisticated, sometimes featuring the target's personal information, or designed to look like official communication from a bank.
The Sun
Preschoolers are a discerning audience, used to highly sophisticated entertainment.
Times, Sunday Times
highly specialized
He saw bacteria and archaea as highly specialized, instead of simple organisms.
The Times Literary Supplement (2017)
This is particularly important for service staffs and for such highly specialized groups as the computer people.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974)
Football is a game of highly specialized roles.
Christianity Today (2000)
To think through what the business needs requires somebody who knows and understands the highly specialized information field.
Peter F. Drucker THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER (2001)
She was interested only in certain narrow and highly specialized aspects of her environment, chiefly those that had to do with pattern and position.
Wills, Christopher The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness (1993)
highly specific
The development of innovative new technologies and highly specific, nonradioactive labels has changed all of that.
The Scientist (2001)
It asserts that teachers are having to cope with a larger range of highly specific conditions in one classroom.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Functional incorporation of highly specific targeting molecules into the viral capsid can potentially retarget adenoviral infection.
Elisabeth A van Erp, Lyudmila N Kaliberova, Sergey A Kaliberov, David T Curiel 2015, 'Retargeted oncolytic adenovirus displaying a single variable domain of camelid heavy-chain-only antibody in a fiber protein', Molecular Therapy: Oncolytics
Subtilisin-like proteases (subtilases) are serine proteases that fulfil highly specific functions in plant development and signaling cascades.
Andreia eFigueiredo, Filipa eMonteiro, Mónica eSebastiana 2014, 'Subtilisin-like proteases in plant pathogen recognition and immune priming: a perspective', Frontiers in Plant Science
highly speculative
A highly speculative punt for money you can afford to lose.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
They are highly speculative and you should only invest what you can afford to lose.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The problem with this argument is that it is highly speculative.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The highly speculative venture of searching for treasure would not meet that test.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It hardly needs to be said that this is a highly speculative one.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
highly subjective
Comedy is highly subjective, while science strives to be objective beyond question.
The Scientist (2000)
There is also the fact that luxury is highly subjective.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It is highly subjective and there is no fixed formula for success.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
These things are highly subjective.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
highly successful
He has form as a highly successful property speculator.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
To date the cervical screening programme has been highly successful.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This is where another highly successful businesswoman with a love of property refurbishment is selling her home.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Brazil has a low number of listed shareholders but boasts more than eight million member owners of highly successful co-operative businesses.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
We've done research in highly successful schools from disadvantaged areas that buck the trend.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
highly susceptible to
Most of us will acknowledge that we are indeed highly susceptible.
Christianity Today (2000)
Consequently, this symbiosis may be inherently instable and highly susceptible to environmental change.
Nils Rädecker, Jean-Baptiste Raina, Mathieu Pernice, Gabriela Perna, Paul Guagliardo, Matt R. Kilburn, Manuel Aranda, Christian R. Voolstra 2018, 'Using Aiptasia as a Model to Study Metabolic Interactions in Cnidarian-Symbiodinium Symbioses', Frontiers in Physiology
These animals are highly susceptible to intranasal infection with wild-type measles strains.
Caroline I. Sellin, Jean-François Jégou, Joëlle Renneson, Johan Druelle, T. Fabian Wild, Julien C. Marie, Branka Horvat 2009, 'Interplay between Virus-Specific Effector Response and Foxp3+ Regulatory T Cells in Measles Virus Immunopathogenesis', PLoS ONE
They develop denser calcifications (sheet-like, nodule), and are highly susceptible to osteoid metaplasia.
Olivier Espitia, Mathias Chatelais, Marja Steenman, Céline Charrier, Blandine Maurel, Steven Georges, Rémi Houlgatte, Franck Verrecchia, Benjamin Ory, François Lamoureux, Dominique Heymann, Yann Gouëffic, Thibaut Quillard 2018, 'Implication of molecular vascular smooth muscle cell heterogeneity among arterial beds in arterial calcification.', PLoS ONE
highly talented
They are what they say: the personal and partial version of one highly talented, often impatient and angry politician.
Times, Sunday Times
They are all dedicated as well as highly talented.
The Sun
She was put firmly in her place: a highly talented racemare, but not a great one.
Times, Sunday Times
A collection of players we always presumed to be highly talented but who have always failed spectacularly to live up to either expectations or reputation.
The Sun
Page was a highly talented and resourceful news cameraman as valued for his enterprise and ingenuity as for his pictures.
Times, Sunday Times
highly technical
His voluminous works, many of a highly technical character, illustrate the intersection of sophistic rhetoric with medicine.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
Management training is particularly important for highly technical managers.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
' Difficult to believe the Incas had mastered such highly technical skills in metallurgy ," murmured Zolar.
Cussler, Clive INCA GOLD (2001)
Its transactions involved devising complex and highly technical financial products that enabled clients to minimise their tax liabilities.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
These formal encounters are always an awkward mixture of grandstanding and highly technical wrangling about the terms of trade.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
highly toxic
The oak processionary moth's larvae has 63,000 highly toxic hairs, which can be carried by the wind.
The Sun (2013)
The active ingredient, ethylene glycol, is highly toxic.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It turned out that the mushroom he'd thought was a common cep was the rare and highly toxic deadly webcap.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The pesticide is highly toxic to aquatic life, although 12 million people depend on fish from the lake as their main source of protein.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
highly uncertain
When this penny dropped, so did my confidence in predictions of future alarm: the amplifiers are highly uncertain.
Times, Sunday Times
The magnitude and persistence of the overall effects on the economy, however, remain highly uncertain.
Times,Sunday Times
That has left many companies facing at best a highly uncertain future, at worst the spectre of bankruptcy.
Times,Sunday Times
However, the economic outlook remains highly uncertain, with markets likely to remain seriously volatile.
Times, Sunday Times
It said recovery was 'highly uncertain' and could be hampered by our huge debts.
The Sun
highly unlikely
Even a private prosecution looks highly unlikely.
The Sun (2018)
Portuguese police do not routinely use lie detectors and it is highly unlikely that the results could be used in any future trial.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
With petrol prices low, it is highly unlikely he will heed their call, but also doubtful he will increase the tax after four years of freezes.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It is highly unlikely that the island will become habitable for overnight tourists in the near future.
Smithsonian Mag (2017)
Such a swing is highly unlikely.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
highly unstable
In total, there have been fewer than six years of being governed this way and these periods proved highly unstable.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Their work is probably part-time, and highly unstable.
Appelbaum, Richard P. Sociology (1995)
Trinucleotide repeats can be highly unstable, mutating far more frequently than point mutations.
Beatriz A Santillan, Christopher Moye, David Mittelman, John H Wilson 2014, 'GFP-based fluorescence assay for CAG repeat instability in cultured human cells.', PLoS ONE
highly unusual
Its multi-manager team is considering taking the highly unusual step of insuring against a market drop through a put option.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This lack of control-freakery is highly unusual with senior politicians.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The mystery's solution turns out to be highly unusual and, frankly, feels a bit of a swiz.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Experts say it is highly unusual to run such a large external deficit during a period of economic weakness.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This highly unusual piece of technology makes up for a disjointed journey from former imperial capital to former imperial port.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
highly valuable
Letters are highly valuable to those who study history and material culture—the analysis of physical objects and how their production, consumption and circulation affect culture.
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He was also an art collector, with a highly valuable collection.
Times, Sunday Times
The explosion of corporate deals between 2004 and 2007 left thousands of people in possession of highly valuable inside information about potential takeovers.
Times, Sunday Times
This same technology, developed as a means of tackling dengue fever, could prove highly valuable in controlling the spread of the zika virus.
Times, Sunday Times
One private equity source said that former industry heads were deemed highly valuable because of their relationships with companies across the sector.
Times, Sunday Times
highly visible
Russian clients are highly visible at the world 's leading fashion shows.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
In addition to coats and jackets, fur trims and accessories were highly visible.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The problem, of course, is that these highly visible qualities became hugely overvalued.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Many opening nights at the theatre were turned into highly visible focal points for rallies against government policy.
Susie Gilbert and Jay Shir A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945 (2003)
His scholastic triumphs were allied to a highly visible right-wing stance.
Forbes, Bryan A SONG AT TWILIGHT (2004)
highly volatile
It can be highly volatile and leave investors nursing huge losses.
Times,Sunday Times
If that were not warning enough, metals were highly volatile last week.
Times, Sunday Times
Even so, remember that alternative investments can be highly volatile, costs are high and scams are rife.
Times, Sunday Times
Highly volatile chemicals carried deep into the body by pollution could also be contributing.
Times, Sunday Times
Being highly volatile, it evaporates instantly, filling the inside of the tyre with ether vapour.
Times, Sunday Times
praise highly
He's praised highly for having kept himself safe through a very traumatic 24 hours.
The Sun
Nighthawk has been praised highly for its quality and customer service.
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Nevertheless, it was praised highly by both fans and critics alike.
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The song was praised highly for its unique sound.
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The work was praised highly by the overseas critics, though, especially for its introduction and footnotes.
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rank highly
After all, commercial targets could rank highly on the criminals' terrible wishlist.
Times, Sunday Times
Among the many infrastructure priorities which need attention, water and gas storage rank highly.
Times, Sunday Times
Money, prospects and an interesting job all rank highly if the graduate packages offered by finance, consulting and law firms are anything to go by.
Times, Sunday Times
To get more tryptophan, other amino acids must be suppressed, and this can be achieved by eating foods that rank highly on the glycaemic index, such as dates.
Times, Sunday Times
I hope this issue continues to rank highly in the front pages until proper measures are introduced to make the streets safer.
Times, Sunday Times
regard highly
When she moved on to adult fiction, she was immediately regarded highly.
Times, Sunday Times
In one of my pastorates, the congregation regarded highly a former pastor whose energies enabled him to be here-there-and-everywhere.
Christianity Today
His performance during spring training was regarded highly, and he was noted on a list of promising rookies throughout the majors.
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He won the respect of his colleagues, and was regarded highly as a mathematics instructor.
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value highly
One would imagine that nurturing the next generation would be something we'd value highly.
Times, Sunday Times
Team-building skills and emotional and cultural intelligence will be valued highly, she says.
Times, Sunday Times
Yet it seemed that their expertise and experience were not valued highly enough.
Times, Sunday Times
These he himself valued highly, and they are among his best book illustrations.
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Glycine became a supplier to the wealthy people who valued highly these works of fine craftsmanship.
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Chinese: 非常
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