noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a CD player (= a piece of equipment for playing CDs )
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She switched off the CD player.
a chess player
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Today, many chess players have online games.
a cricket player
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He used to be a professional cricket player.
a football player
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Like many little boys, his ambition was to be a football player.
a key player
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He won’t leave key players out of the team.
a piano player
bit player
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Although he was NRC chairman, Hervey was strictly a bit player in government.
cassette player
CD player
compact disc player
MP3 player
MP4 player
player piano
portable media player
radio-cassette player
record player
team player
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He was a good businessman, but never a team player.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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There are enough big money players cut down in their prime to give the new boy nightmares.
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The multimillionaire has slowly faded from the industry in the past decade but has been eager to be a big player again.
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Encouraged by the new legislation, he sought to become a big player on the local production scene.
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Millard may well be the biggest player in Division I basketball this season.
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Round-table talks, bringing together the heads of the republics and other big players , could lower the tension.
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The selloff in tech stocks happened, and the big players at aggressive growth funds started buying REITs.
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Even some of the bigger players are cautious.
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The slowdown has dented the bottom lines of some of the biggest players in the market.
good
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By close observation we can also detect two classes of players amongst our best piano players.
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Ironically, most of his better players fled anyway and the great teams of 1971-75 were quickly reduced to non-contenders.
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Steffi Graf is the best woman player of all time.
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Rice is rated the better pass rusher, Hardy the better all-around player .
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Personally I think Rocky's a better player than White.
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They got some pretty good players in this division.
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I think Shutt is a very good player , and I m happy with that deal.
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We still have lots of good players .
great
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But Fifa's latest proposals concede greater powers to players and consequently give little protection to the clubs.
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Parker, for all his reputation as an iconoclast and innovator, was one of the greatest blues players ever.
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He learned a lot then, and he is now maturing into a great player .
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His value only is to a team that believes it is one great player away from a title.
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Hence our shortage of great players .
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Phil was a great player in college.
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A few days before he had been witnessed on a squash court with the greatest player in the sport's history.
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Was he a greater football player than he was a hero?
key
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If communities there are to survive, women are the key players .
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Principals are key players and are encouraged to take the lead to ensure that identification procedures are implemented.
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Dale Baker and David Gibson are now key players in Bright's new look side, both made 70's.
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In the 1930s, they were key players in lettuce strikes in Salinas.
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The series dramatized the struggle by portraying the key players on both sides and probing their motives and strategies.
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Therefore, they were key players in those new integrated teams.
major
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All the major players now offer a range of minimum price contracts, which will use options and futures indirectly.
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Three of the six were major players .
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Heavy investment and brand support is promised by all the major players this year.
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To their surprise, many then become major players within their academic settings.
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Software houses will be the target and major players like Lotus Development and Borland are reportedly starting to kick Bristol's tyres.
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Enron is expected to be a major player in the new California market.
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Saatchi people always know the value of mixing it with major international players .
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That means they could go after high-priced, proven major league players .
other
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At four or five-all in games, other players lapse their concentration.
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Six other players could miss the final if cautioned again.
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By contrast opinion in the occupied territories concerning these other players was hardening rather than softening.
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He left the field wide open for whatever the other players in this charming charade might suggest.
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As ever, what happens depends upon the other player .
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He is best left alone, and needs neither help nor interference from other players .
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Even the other players stopped to watch.
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When he took up the game, there were no other young players around.
team
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The move is more about eliminating boundaries, developing best practice, and working together as team players .
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Now, it was being brought home, one manager said, that they were expected to be team players .
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Both, though, are team players , rather than individuals, and they should dovetail impressively into the Wigan set-up.
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But I became sort of a team player , although still pretty radical.
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How do you get on with your colleagues-are you an active team-player ?
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Jody wants Red to be more of a team player .
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But she is a team player , and she knows what to say.
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Can employees continue to be team players if they are rewarded only for individual performance?
top
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The Eagles have infuriated their fans by letting top quality players join the free-agency merry-go-round.
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It seems that they are designed and marketed to challenge the world's top players to the extreme.
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Read in studio One of the world's top snooker players has been gracing an unlikely stage.
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How can we attract players to the sport if a top class player is advocating potentially dangerous play?
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This is Sue Wright, one of the world's top squash players .
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It means he can not meet another top eight player until the quarter-finals.
well
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He will tell you he has been left a better player and a better person.
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Even amid so much emotional and physical upheaval, however, Maxwell made himself a better player .
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As to Levi being a better all-round player , let's go to our year-end statistics.
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Ironically, most of his better players fled anyway and the great teams of 1971-75 were quickly reduced to non-contenders.
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Now it's rarely the case that the replacement is actually a better player than the so-called old fellow.
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Nick Faldo may be a better player , but Ballesteros is a better golfer.
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You will discover, especially with the better players , that particular drills are valuable in ironing out their weaknesses.
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Although Meriwether was by far the better player of the game, in a single hand anything could happen.
young
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He was the young player who had made such an impression on me during my year on the amateur tour.
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Whiting had 18 points, and consistently frustrated the Lasers' young post players .
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She was in East Kilbride to give a masterclass to promising young players .
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If numbers continue to increase it is hoped to institute a training Wind Band for younger players .
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The pull down menus make the game easy to play and the smooth animation help keep the interest of younger players .
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This led to young players being drafted into top-class soccer before their abilities had had time to mature.
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Jamie, 18, is Boro's young player of the year while Sean, also 18, plays for the Quakers.
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Afterwards he told me that one or two of the younger players in the orchestra had never played the overture before.
■ NOUN
basketball
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Read in studio Oxford University has been banned from fielding one of its best-ever basketball players ... because she's a woman.
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In another episode, Sanger directed an actor whose son is another former Montclair Prep basketball player .
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Along with rap artists and basketball players , these are the black men the black boys look up to.
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She then became a star basketball player in high school, taking her team to the state championship.
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Smith went on to the University of Kansas as a basketball player and then on to his legendary coaching career.
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We look at lots and lots of basketball players .
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Bradley, a Hall of Fame pro basketball player , first gained prominence as a college hoops star at Princeton.
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She had to be a basketball player .
cassette
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Anyone with a home cassette player can testify to the questionable long-term durability of tape recordings.
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Some studies of portable cassette players found that test subjects used headphones at levels ranging from 65-112 decibels.
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You may want to install a few luxuries like a portable television, radio / cassette player or a telephone extension.
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One reason cassette players and other consumer electronics are played so loud, Hull said, is the phenomenon of auditory adaption.
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The amount of explosive hidden in the radio cassette player which destroyed the aircraft was not detectable by any X-ray equipment.
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Gao Ma kept a smal cassette player in his pocket, listening to it with earphones.
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She put a tape in the cassette player but didn't hear the music.
disc
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They stole a television, compact disc player , an amplifier and some speakers, worth a total of £900.
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One often felt assaulted, as if the volume had been turned up on a cheap compact disc player .
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We've fitted a compact disc player and protected it with a new security system.
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You might also want to add a cassette tape player or compact disc player, neither of which the tester had.
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It will also control lighting, curtains and the audio system with compact disc player .
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We designed motorized shopping carts with everything from compact disc players to built-in price scanners.
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Read in studio Now, imagine being able to show a feature film on your television from an ordinary compact disc player .
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Today, portable optical disc players are also emerging.
football
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They made our football players look a bit weak because of all the big shoulder pads and everything.
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You can even call an acrobat or a football player great.
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In the first case, a 17-year-old high school football player struck his head on the ground while being tackled.
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He was a star athlete at Springfield College, a football player and track-and-field star.
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One more jarring landing on an injury that would have sent football players four times her size hobbling to the bench.
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The football player explained patiently to anyone who would listen that the name was chosen for him, not by him.
midfield
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Middlesbrough will offer new contracts in the summer to full back Jimmy Phillips and midfield player Mark Proctor.
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The game also allowed the long-running feud between Limpar and Derby midfield player Mark Pembridge to continue.
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Boro midfield player Graham Kavanagh was voted the best player in the tournament.
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Then again I think to enable Speed and Macca to get forward we need a holding midfield player .
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Pool are helping former Newcastle United midfield player Michael Parkinson to recover from injury.
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As an advanced midfield player he s ok, but as an out and out striker ... Please!!
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The midfield player broke an arm during the midweek draw with Arsenal and will be in plaster for six weeks.
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The Wimbledon midfield player officially lodged an appeal with the Football Association against his £20,000 fine and six-month suspended ban.
record
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Hatton said something about buying him a record player for a wedding present.
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There was a thumping noise coming from above that was a record player .
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She sold her record player to Eric from the top floor.
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But we didn't have a record player , so every night we'd get it out and look at it.
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There was no television set, no record player , not even a radio.
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We cleared the old billiard room of furniture and put on the record player , and danced reels.
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There was a crash downstairs as some one knocked the record player over.
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Even now, record players and radios could be heard.
rugby
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He was of International standard as a rugby player and captain of cricket.
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He was a promising young rugby player , either at full-back or three-quarter.
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First, that rugby players are a highly intelligent, dedicated and wise bunch.
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It was hardly a situation conducive to producing a relaxed and committed rugby player , just newly married.
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Harris was a large man, energetic, powerfully built, and a keen boxer and rugby player in his youth.
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Nostalgia tends to be an acute instinct in most sportsmen: in rugby players it can be positively overwhelming.
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In those days rugby was for rugby players , not spectators.
tennis
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He's not a bad tennis player , though cricket's really his game.
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If Stefan Edberg is your kind of tennis player , stick to cognac.
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She won three Olympic medals and is still considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
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From Seles down, the list of competitors reads like a who's who of international tennis players .
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He dates Ann Grossman, a professional tennis player .
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Originally from Plymouth, she was a very keen squash and tennis player before suffering a knee injury at skiing.
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In her youth Amy had been an avid tennis player .
■ VERB
become
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Sturgeon became over-protective of his players to an impossible degree.
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It has warned the site could become a danger to players if repairs are not carried out.
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So the bargaining takes on a nouveau comic tone, and we all become role players in the funny business.
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Under her leadership, our chapter also became a major player on the local political scene.
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Some kids dream of becoming a major-league baseball player .
play
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If the monster can play and/or the class player is big and good in the air, that is a bonus.
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I am going to play with different players to see if I can find a new partner.
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On one occasion, a socialist game was played , in which players took the parts of rich and poor countries.
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A: It is difficult because you are playing the best players .
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Woodward believes the quintuplet would benefit from playing alongside and against players of National League First Division and international standard.
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I made a point of playing all my players in the first two days.
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I would be playing the greatest squash player ever in 12 hours' time.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ace pilot/player/skier etc
be no mean performer/player etc
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Kinnock fils, who is no mean performer on the rugby field, has developed a taste for academe.
marquee player, actor etc
musician/player/car etc of the year
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A former Car of the Year winner, it has done well on the Continent but has been under-rated here.
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All won national Player of the Year honors during their Bruins careers.
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Going up against league player of the year Mary Raskauskas, Thompson tallied 17 points and 10 rebounds.
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Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season, but they've let me have him for six months.
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On defense, Mutombo, the three-time defensive player of the year , hung around the lane to block and alter shots.
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Then came the news of Price, the two-time City 4-A Player of the Year .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a bass player
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a game for four players
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a tennis player
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He is recognized as the world's greatest chess player .
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I like chess, even though I'm not a very good player .
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It's now the turn of player number three.
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Kelleher was a star basketball player in high school and college.
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One of the players had been injured, and had to leave the field.
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One of the players has been sent off the field.
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Rodriguez was voted Player of the Year.
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She sang "I'll Fly Away," accompanied by two guitar players.
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Simpson is a talented singer and piano player .
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The school has a reputation for producing top-class football players.
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Up to six players can play this game on-line.
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Wikerson is not as good a player as Phillips.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It happened - whether by accident or design Olivia didn't know-that she and the Nawab were the last two players left.
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Macintosh computers come with a player that can handle a variety of sound formats.
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On the pitch I had noticed that the players had become a little more tense.
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The four bench players Miami used played 57 minutes, took nine shots and missed seven of them.
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The next step is to talk to the player .
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You have a defender, you have an offensive player .