as in defeats
failure to win a contest
took a terrible drubbing in last night's basketball game
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Sealing the deal averted a potential Azeri invasion to secure unfettered access after Azerbaijan’s forces inflicted heavy defeats on Armenia’s army in 2020 and 2023 and pushed 120,000 Armenians out of Nagorno-Karabakh.—
Michele Crestani,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025 -
Four of those have been defeats, including this loss to Midtjylland which saw Forest concede two more goals to set-pieces in a chaotic first half.—
Sam Joseph,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Future solar cells, for instance, might harness coherence to move energy more efficiently, reducing losses and boosting performance.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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Small private-sector businesses drove last month’s decline, and losses were widespread across industries (with some of the largest losses in professional and business services and leisure and hospitality), ADP reported.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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More than two dozen arrests were made in Goons beatings across the East Valley in the first half of 2024.—
Elena Santa Cruz,
AZCentral.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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There have been thousands of police calls for service to the motel, ranging from drug deals to human trafficking to shootings and beatings to a 2011 cold case murder.—
John Aguilar,
Denver Post,
21 Sep. 2025
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Four senior players were ruled out with significant physical setbacks last week.—
Pol Ballús,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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For the United States, such setbacks can buy time—until different leadership in Washington once again has a vision of the future built around more than looking out for itself.—
JEFFREY PRESCOTT,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Drubbings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drubbings. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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