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Meaning of Opals | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

The women's national basketball representative team of Australia.

Australia

Equivalents

العربية الكثافات

Examples

“Carrie Graf knows about coaching creative individual players, as she has coached women′s basketball superstar Lauren Jackson, who shot to fame as a 15-year-old and joined the Australian women′s Opals basketball team by 16.”
“This, combined with a sycophantic basketball press in Australia, created a weight of expectation that was slowly crushing the young player. Four months before the Olympics, Opals coach Maher lamented that he was having ‘a few too many’ talks with her on how to cope.”
“She′d made the train on squad for the Australian Opals basketball team and also played rugby for the Sydney University woman′s team.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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