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What customary phrase was whispered over and over to a victorious Roman general during his triumph parade?

triumph

[trahy-uhmf, -uhmf] / ˈtraΙͺ Ι™mf, -ʌmf /






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The soft-spoken, mustached American shocked the world with his triumph at the road cycling World Championships in Montreal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

For Livia, who performs it for a university recital, it is her greatest triumph and a symbol of her hubris, because mastering it seems to presage a fall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

But Raducanu enjoyed one of the best weeks of her career at Queen's Club in June, reaching her biggest final since her triumph in New York five years ago.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

It is a bleak little consumer triumph: the system has managed to make a moral improvement feel exactly like the thing it replaced.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

Danuta laughs, and Helena grins at me in triumph.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

As a situation comedy, its characters will spend their days and nights getting in and out of scrapes, enduring self-inflicted humiliations, experiencing minor triumphs; they are all a little stupid, and a little smart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

After "several months" of planning and building, the display also featured some of the club's major triumphs like a 1978 victory over Bayern Munich and a number of "scandals and bitter defeats".

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Sabalenka's four Grand Slam singles titles - two Australian Open and two US Open triumphs, all on hard courts - are more than most players can dream of.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

British and Swedish exercises have also resulted in easy Ukrainian triumphs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

I wasn’t even good at them, but give me a football and an empty playground and I could invent last-second triumphs that would bring tears to your eyes.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

But he devotes considerable attention to how Native Americans manipulated and frequently triumphed over colonists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The defendants, including “Quiet on Set” producers Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz, triumphed under California’s anti-SLAPP law, which protects against frivolous lawsuits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

But despite that lack of résumé, Graham triumphed on Tuesday.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

The 23-year-old triumphed at the Australian Open in January to become the youngest man to win all four Grand Slam titles.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Hermione was still seething at the way Harry had triumphed without doing the work properly.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

After helping the Blues win the Treble in 2023 then triumphing at the Euros with Spain a year later, an anterior cruciate ligament injury derailed Rodri's dominance somewhat.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

The Knicks ended up triumphing 130-93, a victory that sent the team to the NBA finals for the first time in 27 years.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026

The team won a 6-foot aluminum pole, among other prizes, for triumphing in a Festivus-themed trivia contest last December.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

This kind of narrowing of the acceptable realm of conversation may have briefly led to a feeling that once marginalized groups were triumphing.

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026

In the middle of the glade, on the chief tree, there hung an enormous copper basin, triumphing over the beaten shields.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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