defeat
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Defeat by Dundee United at Tannadice left Celtic five off the pace with seven rounds remaining, with Rangers sitting second.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
Defeat "will pose enormous problems for the party," politics expert Laura McAllister of Cardiff University told AFP.
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
Appeared in the April 28, 2026, print edition as 'It’s Way Too Early to Declare Defeat in Iran'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026
Defeat by France in Paris next weekend would mark only the third time in the 115-year history of the Five and Six Nations that England have lost four games in a single campaign.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
I am sensible that I believed one Way once but I aver that our College’s Defeat is due to an imperfect Understanding of this Question.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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