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Example sentences for: defeat

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Many tender the family alibi because they're ashamed of having been fired, or embarrassed to admit that they've conceded defeat to the god of success (Paxon's case, I'm sure), or because they're going nuts on the job.
It lost its empire in America and the Pacific, and then in 1923 suffered a humiliating defeat in Morocco at the hands of local rebels.
One other--rather curious--explanation for the Republican defeat in the 1996 presidential race was proffered by a member of Bob Dole's polling staff.
President Ernesto Zedillo executed one of history's most impressive post-election spin jobs, portraying his party's defeat as proof of the climate of freedom and democracy he has fostered.
It can be used to achieve goals or to rethink them, to defeat enemies or to reassess them, to win wars or to stop them.