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7.2
- noun
- /ˈpɑːkɪt/
- However, there are still pockets of human resistance that threaten our peace.
- pockets of resistance
- isolated pockets
- pockets of excellence
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Watch on YouTubeWe've seen a lot of pockets of problems growing globally.
- We've seen a lot of pockets of problems growing globally.
- And that's the main way that people get from one pocket universe to another.
- Just a small little pocket of the world with Smalling quotes.
- There are still pockets of racism, pockets of homophobia.
- In these ways, Joy White says, gentrification creates expanding pockets of whiteness.
- And they have like a resistance and pockets of resistance and different leaders, right?
- And then there are people in pockets right of cities who don't.
- So you get little big and little pockets of different ways of making film.
- But it creates a dynamic which is at least in pockets problematic because.
- So there's pockets of that compliance effect.
Examples
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My parents live in a residential pocket of Trenton nicknamed the Burg.
Fiction book (2000) -
Pockets of civilization survived.
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And I sort of see pockets of both, to be honest with you.
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So you get little big and little pockets of different ways of making film.
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There are pockets of Resistance all around the planet.
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Citizens of America, we are now closer than ever to a historic victory as we eliminate the final pockets of resistance.
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Most of the German residents were expelled, although pockets of ethnic Germans remain in Poland.
Academic text (1991) -
Moreover, with the creation of Congo Square, further pockets of African cultural retention surfaced within the slave communities themselves.
Academic text (2012) -
These outbreaks seem to be originating in three distinct pockets of the world: Cape Town, Suffolk, England, and outside Nashville in Tennessee.
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The scientists discovered several pockets of biodiversity in the remote rainforest, each supporting unique species.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Idioms
Pay for something with your own money instead of getting money from someone else
- Informal
A helpful idea or tool kept secret to use when needed
Compounds
13
2.2
A small folding tool with a metal blade that fits into its handle and into a pocket
- Formal
1
8.8
A president or governor keeping a bill not signed until lawmakers end their meeting so it cannot become law
1
4.8
A call someone makes by mistake when their phone's buttons are pressed in a pocket
1
3.5
A piece of cloth that covers a pocket opening to keep things safe and make the pocket look neater
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4.0
Games like pool that are played on a table with six pockets where players hit balls with a long stick
- Archaic
1
9.9
A very small town where one person or family controls who is elected to Parliament
- US
1
9.3
A small rodent active at night that lives in burrows and carries seeds in cheek pouches
- Specialized
A small animal like a mouse with soft fur and pouches in its cheeks
A small rodent from Mexico with fur lined cheek pouches for carrying food
A small secret pocket with a spring that holds small valuable items inside clothing
- Specialized
A small mouse with stiff fur and cheek pouches that lives in dry grasslands
A small burrowing animal like a mouse that has fur-lined cheek pouches and makes dirt mounds
A small animal that lives underground in grasslands and carries food in pockets in its cheeks
A small mouse in central United States grasslands that carries food in cheek pouches
A small animal that lives underground and digs tunnels in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida
A small burrowing rodent that lives in western United States valleys and meadows with fur-lined cheek pouches
How Isolated
Surface Forms
Etymology
A pocket of people or activity is named after the idea of a small, separate place like a pocket or pouch inside a larger area. That's why 'pockets' of poverty or opposition mean small, isolated areas where something stays.