noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
athlete's foot
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Does this deny any connection between the physiology of black athletes and their sporting achievements?
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Sometimes overcoming enormous odds, mostly because of racial prejudice, black athletes changed the sporting landscape in the United States.
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Never mind all that. Black athletes do well because it is in their genes.
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Maybe the black athletes are just psyching the white guys out.
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By and large black athletes receive identical treatment to everyone else.
female
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Considered by many as the greatest female athlete of all time, Joyner-Kersee has won a total of six Olympic medals.
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In college, female athletes now make up one-third of all sports competitors, instead of a mere 15 percent.
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Since 1972, the number of female high school athletes soared from 300, 000 to more than 2 million.
fine
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They were not prepared to use their disappointment as a stick with which to beat a fine athlete .
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Its purpose was social and athletic and some of the finest athletes , priests, and citizens of Chicago have been members.
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Hershelle Gibbs, who is a fine athlete and has a lot of cricketing potential.
good
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At the same time she was a good all-round athlete .
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They may not be good enough athletes or students.
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Wilko said he s the best athlete he has seen playing football.
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The Huskies continued to cull the best athletes in the West and brought them to Seattle.
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Pretty good athlete , pretty good student, but never really distinguished himself, either line of work.
great
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A tragedy in a way, for I thought that Allan Wells had been a great athlete .
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The thrills and chills come from watching great athletes play their hearts out in front of wildly partisan spectators.
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Even as Jones was becoming one of the greatest all-around woman athletes in the history of Texas sports, she wondered.
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It's like a great athlete .
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The greatest athletes are legendary for their powers of concentration.
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Power-packs Chang and Sanchez-Vicario are great athletes and so fit.
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He is a great athlete with a good arm.
international
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He was a top international athlete , an Olympic champion.
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Miss Tessa Sanderson, international athlete .
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Helping to put the youngsters through their paces will be qualified coaches and local junior international athletes .
olympic
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The Olympic athlete with a big heart.
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Scott recruited an Olympic athlete to hurl the hammer and London skinheads as audience extras.
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I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs.
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What was he, she thought bitterly, an Olympic athlete ?
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Or to know more about Olympic athletes past and present.
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Read in studio Britain's top Olympic and paralympic athletes gathered today to celebrate the outstanding achievements in their sports.
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But the question still rankles: Can a participating Olympic athlete be openly gay today?
professional
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Tolstikov is a wealthy professional athlete , yet he considers bananas a luxury.
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Rips of the quadriceps tendon are a fact of life among professional athletes who stress the tendon during jumping and running.
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I am retiring, leaving this column to become a professional athlete and sports climber.
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Critics say professional athletes have been abusing the generous California system by filing claims from out of state.
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But whatever the size of his paycheck, Wunderlich is still a professional athlete .
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And workers' compensation payments to professional athletes would be offset by any payments available under a labor contract.
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Nevada has no state tax and no major league teams -- but more and more residents who are high-income professional athletes .
top
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He was a top international athlete , an Olympic champion.
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Indeed, many top athletes and even body-builders subsist on a vegetarian diet.
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Would either of them have avoided bypass surgery if they had not been top athletes ?
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Charlie Francis's cynical opinion that most of the world's top athletes are on drugs.
young
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Ron was so enthusiastic for young athletes to do well.
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As she walked beside Archer with her long swinging gait her face wore the vacant serenity of a young marble athlete .
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There is rampant use of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs among young athletes ..
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Any young athlete caught taking gifts or money risks being kicked off the team.
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It is not about identifying talented young athletes .
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Einhorn estimated about 100 to 200 young athletes die each year from the condition.
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Two young athletes winning on the big stage and managing to enjoy every minute of the experience.
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In 1981, a young athlete from a western state went into the hospital for a simple knee operation.
■ NOUN
field
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Kenneth is a field athlete and competes nationally and internationally in javelin, shot and discus.
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In December and January, she collected numerous honors as the top woman athlete and top track and field athlete of 2000.
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In Sydney last September she became the first female track and field athlete to win five medals in a single Olympics.
student
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But their young student athletes might not be as ready as they think.
■ VERB
compete
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An estimated 200 million people will watch on television as more than 10, 000 athletes compete in 271 events.
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But whereas amateur athletes often compete just for the privilege of winning, retailers compete for customers and profit.
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The findings are strictly confidential and we do not know if these athletes were allowed to compete .
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Every year races, such as the London, demonstrate how disabled and able-bodied athletes can compete side-by-side in the same competition.
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Kenneth is a field athlete and competes nationally and internationally in javelin, shot and discus.
drive
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Previously she had come across as a driven , almost obsessed athlete , ever pushed by her father to strive for perfection.
include
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They included athletes in a number of sports.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extreme athlete/surfer/skier etc
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Be an extreme athlete; or better yet, look like one on your way to the grocery store.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a good athlete
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It was discovered that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs.
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Over 150 athletes will compete in the Indoor Championships at Gateshead International Stadium.
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The way he got to that ball shows what a superb athlete he is.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An owner invests years, a fan invests his loyalty, and, there go both, along with the athlete .
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Crowds enjoyed seeing a team of transvestites trounce more conventional athletes.
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Female speaker Atalanta was a mythical huntress and athlete .
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Sports Illustrated for Kids asked a handful of athletes whether they had invented anything when they were kids.
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The athletes would pump up their compressed-air bottles themselves, beforehand.