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Example sentences for: defeats

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Both relied on daddy's allies, outspent their opponents, and sought to avenge their fathers' political defeats.
Just as index-fund investing defeats this purpose, so too does trading based on anything other than an evaluation of a company's underlying prospects for the future.
Talk about quick defeats: The first sign I see outside the MGM Grand ballroom all but declares that the National Gambling Impact Study Commission has already lost.
After defeats by Greeks in the south, Latins in the center, and Gallic invaders in the north, the Etruscan empire faded in the fourth century b.c.
In the late 1990s, these extremist groups suffered major defeats by Kurdish forces.