defeated

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After the EIC defeated Mughal forces in 1757, it ruled large parts of India, producing opium there to rebalance trade deficits with China, albeit illegally.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Shnaider will face qualifier Maja Chwalinska in a semi-final few would have predicted after the Pole defeated Anna Kalinskaya earlier on Wednesday.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

Centrcom said that U.S. forces had successfully defeated multiple Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks and that no American personnel had been harmed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Once in control of swathes of Syria and Iraq, IS was territorially defeated in 2019 in a battle spearheaded by Kurdish-led forces with support from a US-led international coalition.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

They try to remain hopeful, but in May 1942 they receive devastating news: Corregidor, the island where General MacArthur had established his new headquarters, has been defeated.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly