losing

present participle of lose
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as in dropping
to fail to win, gain, or obtain if the team loses this game, they're out of the play-offs

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Recent Examples of losing Exactly the opposite of what’s happened in losing two one-score games to start this season; each was marked by turns that had them two scores down into the middle of the fourth quarter and ultimately just on the outside looking in as time ran down. Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2025 The 74-year-old François Bayrou resigns on Tuesday after choosing to gamble his political survival on a confidence vote a day earlier—and losing it by a huge margin. Cole Stangler, Time, 9 Sep. 2025 Since then, Cracker Barrel has become a cookie-cutter corporate chain, steadily losing its Southern flavor. Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025 Queer Eye won for six years straight since 2018 before losing last year to Shark Tank. Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for losing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for losing
Verb
  • Advocates see that high violation rate as an indication that regulators are missing even more abuses in the fields.
    Max Blau, ProPublica, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The San Francisco 49ers managed to improve to 2-0 with a 26-21 win over the New Orleans Saints on Sunday despite missing quarterback Brock Purdy and tight end George Kittle.
    Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The video, released Thursday night, showed a person running across a rooftop of the building from which the fatal round was fired before climbing down and dropping to the ground.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • On Thursday night, additional video was released of the suspect, dropping from a rooftop after the shooting, as authorities asked the public for tips and assistance in identifying him.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This can be something forceful falling or pressing on the toe or twisting it in an awkward manner.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Borrowers aged 18 to 29 are also falling 90 or more days late on auto loans faster than older borrowers.
    Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • However, salary-dumping Drummond wouldn't come without risk for the Sixers.
    Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In an interview, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava noted that dumping dogs is a top complaint in the agricultural area of South Miami-Dade known as Redland.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • After spending the first nine years of his career with the Washington Capitals, Johansson was traded to the New Jersey Devils in the summer of 2017, just before the Caps broke through with their Cup win.
    Carol Schram, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Simon-Kucher also has a new holiday shopping report, which surveyed consumers in July, and is forecasting Gen Z shoppers to reduce their holiday shopping budget by only 1%, from $814 to $805, while Millennials will be spending 14% more year over year.
    Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Those who say Tepper could never own a winning team conveniently are forgetting about Charlotte FC, which also won a game in the MLS playoffs in 2024.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Down the hall, history teacher Kyle Scarbrough talked with high schoolers about the dangers of forgetting history, drawing on examples from the Book of Judges.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • China's housing downturn has stretched into a fourth year, with prices, sales, investment and construction activity faltering across the board.
    Anniek Bao,Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Investors’ long-running enthusiasm for artificial intelligence showed signs of faltering late Tuesday and early Wednesday morning as tech stocks tumbled.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The reason for the debris is not that people are discarding the cookies but, rather, the way they’re sold.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • These layers are then reorganized into tensor networks, which retain the most important patterns in the layer’s weights while discarding redundant information that isn’t contributing much to overall performance.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Losing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/losing. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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