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defeat

noun as in frustration

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Fulham's win over bottom side Wolves last week ended a run of four straight league defeats but it's hard to really gauge their form off that - it was only Wolves they beat.

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"Nothing's been solved after a really good game at the weekend," the midfielder said after defeat in Denmark.

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Meaning when to call the roll on a key legislative vote and when to cut her losses in the face of inevitable defeat.

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Two epic defeats in less than a week, and John Kennedy took it very personally.

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“How else can we defeat our enemies, Roz? We need to fight! You need to fight!”

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

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