favour
verb
to help someone and give them an advantage in an unfair way
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To give someone an unfair advantage
give/show preference to someone/something
to treat someone or something better than someone or something else, or to give an advantage to someone or something
hand something to someone on a plate
to make it easy for someone to have or achieve something that they would normally have to work hard to get
vocal fry
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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a type of cart pulled by a horse and used in the past for carrying barrels of beer
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conflict mineral
a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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