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Example sentences for: wins

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The 18 th film version of Victor Hugo's novel, this one from Danish director Bille August, wins modest praise despite its familiar story and conventional telling.
The lowest-common-denominator approach its creators take to solving the problems of today's heterogeneous computer systems is highly controversial, and not just because Microsoft and Intel (who have the most to lose if the Java approach wins out) say so.
After he wins, they say he won by running as a conservative.
British playwright David Hare wins praise for adapting Chekhov into colloquial language, though the melodrama of the original is said to remain.
If the Republican Pirozzi wins, it looks like the GOP barely hung on to take a seat that should have been a gimme.