"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For the best-known avocat in the French-speaking world, it was a rare, bitter defeat.
- He wrestled with it for several strides, then admitted a rare defeat.
- She captured 56 percent of the vote and dealt a rare defeat to the candidate of the city's business establishment.
- In the men's 100 meters, Maurice Greene was handed a rare defeat.
- The incident seemed to mark the rare defeat of a powerful construction company, which is now fighting the decision in court.
- But it was a rare defeat.
- Duke has lost two of those four games, including a rare defeat at home Saturday against its rival North Carolina.
- He was brought off before the end of a rare defeat and the emotional scars were apparent for weeks after that.
- No one was charged, despite his call for an investigation, a rare defeat.
- This time, it was the Australian women who handed the Americans a rare defeat.
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