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won

[wuhn] / wʌn /
ADJECTIVE
achieved
Synonyms
STRONG
Antonyms


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The bad news for the 2026 Dodgers is that the Dodgers have never won the World Series after winning 100 or more games in the regular season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Since 2008, the Rays have won more regular-season games than anybody besides the Dodgers and Yankees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Two years later came the redemption, the goal that won City the Champions League in 2023.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The good news for the 2026 Dodgers is that they won 100 regular-season games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

I need Dr. Cohen to hurry up and say which of us won.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

There by him now stood the beakers and bowls, 172 There lay the dishes and dearly-wrought swords, Rusty, through-eaten they, as in earth's bosom A thousand of winters there they had wonned.

From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous

But while in early morn she wonned alone And Paris slept, shrill rose her singing tone, And brave the light on kindled cheeks and eyes: Brave as her hope is, brave the flag she flies.

From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Maurice Henry Hewlett

The castle would have been right fair and rich had any folk wonned therein, but none there were save one old priest and his clerk that lived within by their own toil.

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans

But small pleasaunce took Little John   In all he heard and saw; Till he reached the cave of a hermit old   Who wonned within the shaw.

From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Richard Doyle

Offering there hath he made Saint James, candles him paid, Gold on the shrine hath laid; Now Gobertz Is for Toulouse, where that maid Tibors wonned unafraid Of Love and his accolade That breaketh hearts.

From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Maurice Henry Hewlett

Temple devout! where God chose his wonning,* *abode From which, these misbeliev'd deprived be, To you my soule penitent I bring; Receive me, for I can no farther flee.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves




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