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favourites

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play favorites

To give preferable treatment to someone or something one likes or favors more than others. The teacher is always playing favorites in class, letting the students she likes go home a little bit earlier than the rest. As a senator, I promise not to play favorites with our public services.
See also: favorite, play
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play favourites

show favouritism towards someone or something. chiefly North American
See also: favourites, play
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Kiwi captain Kane Williamson and batsman Ross Taylor are being considered favourites to score the most runs for New Zealand while fast-bowlers Trent Boult and Tim Southee are being considered favourites to bag the most wickets.
Batsmen Babar Azam and Fakhar Zaman are being considered favourites to score the most runs while leg-spinner Shadab Khan and fast-bowler Hasan Ali are being considered favourites to bag the most wickets.
Fast-bowlers Kemar Roach and Sheldon Cottrell are being considered favourites to bag the most wickets whereas Batsmen Chris Gayle and Shimron Hetmyer are being considered favourites to score the most runs for the West Indies.
My nine things Favourite With Holly Willoughby The Play to the Whistle presenter, 35, on what entertains her...
Conservative Clr Craig Whittaker remains the strong favourite to take the seat at 1/16, with Labour's Steph Booth second favourite on 11/2.
Devastating, delicious or doomed, the court favourite was always on a fatal yo-yo.
But as James A Boyden writes in his essay on 16th century Spain and its court structures: "Favour consumes those upon whom it is bestowed and great confidences between royal master and favourite end in precipitous downfalls."
For the favourite, fortune was balanced on the knife edge of charm, personal beauty and tact set within a subtext of sexual attractiveness and desire.
The country's cultural hub Katara was named 'favourite hosted event space'.
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