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Example sentences for: defeating

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Talk about defeating the purpose.
They moved, stored, and spent their money in ordinary ways, easily defeating the detection mechanisms in place at the time.
Other states have blocked gambling--as Alabama did by defeating a lottery referendum this week--but this marks the first time in 50 years that a state has outlawed gambling and uprooted a living industry.
Henríques consolidated his position by defeating the Moors at the Battle of Ourique in 1139, and celebrated by naming himself the first king of Portugal.
Interesting, but the snap bio tells us that the author, Paul D. Moore, was, during the whole time of the Los Alamos troubles, the FBI's man in charge of defeating Chinese spying.