I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
champion a cause (= publicly support an aim )
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He has championed the cause of renewable energy since the 1980s.
defending champion
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the defending champion
ladies’ team/champion/championship etc
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the ladies’ darts team
undisputed leader/champion/master etc
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the undisputed world heavyweight champion
world champion
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the reigning Formula One world champion
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
current
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She's teamed up with Gill Clark and they're current national doubles champions .
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Gianni Bugno, so powerful in the hills and the current world road champion , must be among the favourites.
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The maillot arc-en-ciel is the rainbow jersey worn only by the current world champion .
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But Limerick are the current league champions and Jim Nelson's men can't afford to take anything for granted.
defending
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Netball Sefton, the defending champions , will have to work hard particularly against a Wirral side.
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They defeated Essex 6-3, Herts., the defending champions , 7-2, and Dorset, 7-2.
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Galway's All Ireland semi-final win is now history, and counts for little as they prepare to face defending champions Kilkenny.
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Allan Wells, as defending champion , had already been selected.
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Morrell went on for a comfortable victory over three seconds clear of the defending champion , Mark Kirk, of Ballymena.
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Swansea's victory kept them top of the First Division and was another display worthy of any defending champions .
great
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Like all great champions he is single-minded and selfish.
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Chavez is a great champion , of course.
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Only the really great champions refuse to be sidetracked by any of these minor problems.
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The place never saw a greater champion .
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They were great champions and everyone who saw them on the ice thought they were lovers.
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This was the last fight between the two great champions , as all the immortals knew.
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The careers of many great champions have been blighted and eventually ruined by their putting.
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Their great champion was far away.
junior
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The most impressive winner of the afternoon was North-East junior champion Michael Threadgill.
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He was also second in the Yorkshire Championships at Harrogate and is currently junior champion of Yorkshire.
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Lisa Ashdown scored a useful win over the new junior boys' champion Paul Davison.
national
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She's teamed up with Gill Clark and they're current national doubles champions .
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Whoever wins the title, rest assured of one thing: The national champion would lose the next day.
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Women's National champion , Melissa Watson, who races with the Swindon team came a cropper.
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This program is totally free to the kids who participate, and the eventual national champions win college scholarships.
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And Booth did enough to suggest it will only be a matter of time before he is crowned national champion .
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All year long, the Bruins were living with the fame and adulation of being defending national champions .
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He has been national champion at under-10, 14, 16 and 19 level, and World Young Master.
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She is the current two-time defending national rhythmic gymnastics champion .
new
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And how can traditional advocates of animal welfare prove that these new champions of the welfare of animals must be mistaken?
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When the bee resumes Thursday, Ward will battle 102 other spellers until a new champion is crowned.
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After all, the endurance in the pueblos counted more than the new government, the new champions , the new reforms.
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However Microsoft or its new anti-Wabi champion , Insignia Solutions could still sue.
olympic
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Today we meet Olympic cycling champion Chris Boardman Keith.
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Quincy Watts, the 1992 Olympic champion , faded to eighth and did not qualify for the Olympic team.
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He was a top international athlete, an Olympic champion .
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By the time the Olympic champion finished in eighth, her emotions were laid bare for the crowd.
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Peters and Daley Thompson, the 1980 and 1984 Olympic decathlon champion , were there to cheer her on.
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Though Jackson was the first to congratulate the Olympic champion , the disappointment was written all over his face.
reigning
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Bobby Rahal, the reigning champion in the current Indy Car series, has tried to develop a domestic car-building programme.
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Four former World finalists, and the reigning World Under-21 champion , will be in action against the Bears.
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A win against the reigning world champions is always good for morale, but on this occasion it would be especially welcome.
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Cool Californian Wayne Rainey is the reigning champion .
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The match of the day is between reigning champions Silksworth and hopefuls Houghton.
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Fittipaldi's victory made the championship score 4- Points to the pretender and 27 to the reigning champion .
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Sue Wright is Britain's reigning squash champion .
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He was the reigning world champion and he'd won the first two races of the season.
undisputed
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And now Faldo is primed to show the rest of the world's top golfers that he is the undisputed champion .
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As a result he is no longer undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
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This is one art at which she's undisputed family champion .
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boxing
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And who better to promote such knock-down prices than boxing champion , Chris Eubank.
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But never before a heavy weight boxing champion of the world.
heavyweight
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But the heavyweight champions - as they always will - illuminated the image sent out to the public.
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It was the heavyweight champion until the advent of Art Explosion, a production of Nova Development.
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Still in their musical infancy, these guys are prospective heavyweight champions ... no sweat.
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Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion , had his problems with the law.
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He presented boxer Jack Johnson when he was heavyweight champion .
league
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But, whatever the result, he is backing United to be the first Premier League champions .
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Newcastle were the Cup holders, had been in the final five times in seven years and were three times League champions .
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But Limerick are the current league champions and Jim Nelson's men can't afford to take anything for granted.
world
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The melee was extraordinary, because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion .
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A win against the reigning world champions is always good for morale, but on this occasion it would be especially welcome.
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The women also include the former world champion Ann Hughes, who is attempting to recapture the lightweight crown.
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There were at least two world champions lining up for the start and many seasoned and experienced drivers.
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Now he's tipped as a future world champion .
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But tragedy struck again in 1970 when Jochen Rindt, Chapman's third world champion , was killed at Monza.
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beat
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If Components Bureau can beat the champions for a second time, then they will virtually be home and dry.
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Stuart Bingham, 23, from Basildon beat the defending champion 10-7.
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Not many people know this, but Othello is the only game at which a computer has beaten the world champion .
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In Istanbul Galatasaray fought back from two goals down to beat defending champions Real Madrid 3-2 in the other quarter-final.
become
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Although a passionate lover in his youth, after his baptism by Ambrose he became a champion of asceticism.
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He has become the champion of ever more research.
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Two years later, in 1972, he became the youngest world champion .
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Yet at least he had since enjoyed the status of becoming a world champion , courtesy of this coxless fours win.
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He is so enthused by his new project that he has suddenly become a champion of intellectual-property laws.
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Jacques Villeneuve was the exception, the Indy winner successfully transferring his talent to become world champion in 1997.
produce
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The truth is that gluttony has produced as many world champions and outstanding contenders.
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His system produced Olympic champions Comaneci and Retton.
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But when she does produce a champion it is one of remarkable character and ability.
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The first four rounds are designed to produce 32 prize-winning county champions , who will then go forward to the national rounds.
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It is not about producing future Olympic champions .
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The best golf of the day had been produced by the boy champion , Tim Baxter, playing off scratch.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
reigning champion
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Bobby Rahal, the reigning champion in the current Indy Car series, has tried to develop a domestic car-building programme.
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Cool Californian Wayne Rainey is the reigning champion.
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Fittipaldi's victory made the championship score 4- Points to the pretender and 27 to the reigning champion.
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No reigning champions are left in the championships, although Olympic qualification needs barred several from entering.
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She is also the reigning champion, having won four consecutive games.
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The match of the day is between reigning champions Silksworth and hopefuls Houghton.
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There is not now a reigning champion left in the event.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As defending champion , he is expected to reach the final.
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Bjorn Borg was the reigning Wimbledon champion for five years.
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By 1978 Boitano was the national junior champion in ice skating.
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Mohammed Ali, the former world heavyweight boxing champion , will appear on the 'Tonight' show next week.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the fighter revealed he's shelling out £20,000 for sparring partners Mike Weaver and Tony Tubbs, both former world champions.
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But, whatever the result, he is backing United to be the first Premier League champions.
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It does so on two grounds: that Duran is no longer a champion and that he may not be fit.
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Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion , had his problems with the law.
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The defending World Cup champion was fastest in practice.
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Tracey Thompson agrees there aren't many schools, especially girls schools which can boast two national chess champions.
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Two men walk in there who walks out the champion ?
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United responded like champions and laid seige to the Chelsea goal for the remainder of the game.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cause
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Because of this experience he came to champion the cause of psychiatry and of a high-minded version of socialism.
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If the church is to be truly pro-life, how can it help but champion the cause of battered women?
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Indeed, it was a pleasure for us to hear him champion the cause of unilateralism.
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Odd how no traditional civil rights or liberal black leader stepped forth to champion her cause .
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It is enshrined in draft legislation sponsored by Mario Segni, who championed the cause of electoral reform.
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Hopefully, these opinion-formers will champion the act's cause and gradually the public will be interested enough to find out more.
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Nor was Wilkins a layman championing a secular cause .
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It champions the cause of good beer and good pubs.
idea
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Above all, he should persuade Britain that he can champion ideas .
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The Profitboss will risk people championing new ideas , and will support the idea with money, time and effort.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Purcell championed social programs for the elderly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For $ 35, 000, this little town plans to build an elevator to comply with legislation championed by Sen.
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Hopefully, these opinion-formers will champion the act's cause and gradually the public will be interested enough to find out more.
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Odd how no traditional civil rights or liberal black leader stepped forth to champion her cause.
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Radio presenters and producers often get great pleasure from seeing the success of a record which they have championed.
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That Aussie on the telly championing the Outback is merely praising its warm-weather virtue.
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The hypothesis has been championed by F. Papi.
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The organizational theorists who have championed the matrixing approach candidly label it an organizational overlay.
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Those, like me, who championed the News Network asked whether we could afford to lose one-and-a-half million new listeners.