as in defeats
failure to win a contest
took a terrible drubbing in last night's basketball game
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And the matchup gives the Rebels their chance to inflict back-to-back defeats upon the Bulldogs for the first time in almost 30 years.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025 -
But their four defeats have come against Tottenham, Manchester United, Liverpool and Manchester City — and in two of those cases, the winning goal came in stoppage time.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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The Sabres started 0-3, with two of those losses coming at home.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Many of those drivers could have stemmed or erased their losses simply by waiting for another year or two and paying off some or all of the remaining loan balance, Drury said.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
15 Oct. 2025
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In July, after months of detention, which included routine beatings and other mistreatment, the men were released to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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On many nights, Tamara would find her grandmother hunched over the kitchen table, poring over trial transcripts in which Erik and Lyle delivered hours of tearful and stomach-churning accounts of beatings, verbal lashings and rape.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
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The Blue Jays have also had to adjust their starting rotation on the fly as some harsh setbacks sprung up toward the end of the regular season.—
Peter Chawaga,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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Early on, each test had generally improved upon previous demonstrations until SpaceX hit some setbacks at the beginning of 2025 with a series of three failed tests ending in explosions.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Drubbings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drubbings. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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