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won

[wuhn] / wʌn /
ADJECTIVE
achieved
Synonyms
STRONG
Antonyms


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I never won a single game against him.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

If you’re in that group, congratulations: You’ve won a comparison that tells you almost nothing about whether you can retire.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

Jeong expects SK Telecom’s operating profit to jump 80% to 1.931 trillion won this year, with its operating profit margin widening to 11.1% in 2026 from 6.3% in 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Since Galatasaray won the Uefa Cup in 2000, only one Turkish side has reached the semi-finals of a major Uefa competition, illustrating the gap that still exists between Turkey's biggest clubs and Europe's established powers.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

This is the tenth match she’s won in a row—and we’ve only played ten.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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 Hewlett, Maurice Henry

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 Hewlett, Maurice Henry

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 Doyle, Richard

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 Evans, Sebastian

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 Purves, D. Laing




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