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loser

Definition for loser

noun as in person, thing that fails

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But capitalism—with its continual destruction of old values on behalf of fresh, profitable opportunities—has always meant new rounds of winners and losers in the economy.

Do we play the left’s game—silencing, canceling, punishing, authorizing the government to pick winners and losers in the private sector?

"There has to be one loser but I think there are two winners today. One family that won and I think for the sport of tennis, the story is unreal."

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Opened in 1914, the canal reminds us that the linkages we impose on the landscape are not neutral or necessarily equitable but entail value judgments as well as winners and losers.

"I am a sore loser, I always will be. I want to win," he added.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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