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verb

ˈwin How to pronounce win (audio)
Definition of winnext
1
as in to prevail
to achieve victory (as in a contest) the kind of person who always has to win—even if the game is just for fun

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2
as in to earn
to receive as return for effort win a gold medal in swimming

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3
as in to achieve
to obtain (as a goal) through effort won a substantial victory in the struggle for civil rights for all

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win

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noun

as in victory
an instance of defeating an enemy or opponent a team with 12 wins and two losses

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Recent Examples of win
Verb
Tommaso Landucci’s Venice Orizzonti title The House of the Monkey which won Riccardo Scamarcio Best Actor and the director and co-writer Damiano Femfert Best Screenplay in the sidebar, is also on the shortlist. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2026 And so beginning with the 2027 football season, UM and Nike will renew their historic 27-year partnership that spanned from 1987 until 2015, a period in which the Hurricanes’ football team won four of its five national championships. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026
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This coming from a team that was projected, at best, 67 wins and another last-place finish during the preseason, per FanGraphs. — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 Although Amazon earned 17 statuettes across its Prime Video and MGM Studios subdivisions, most of those wins were in craft categories and didn’t air on last night’s Primetime Emmys broadcast. — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for win
Recent Examples of Synonyms for win
  1. prevail
  2. earn
  3. achieve
  4. victory
  5. triumph
  6. gain
  7. attain
  8. reap
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  • That victory made the Myanmar native a champion questioned by some, but Van legitimized his reign by prevailing in a grueling battle against Tatsuro Taira last May, stopping his challenger in the final round.
    — Eduard Cauich, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Trump’s first and last thought on AI seems to be that America must prevail.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of prevail
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  • Henderson earned his second interception of the night on the final play.
    — Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Buzz has completed a 99,767-kilometer (roughly 62,000 miles) journey through 92 countries and six continents, earning a Guinness World Record after spending 445 days on the road.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of earn
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  • For measles, populations need vaccination rates of 95 percent or higher to achieve herd immunity—the level of protection required to prevent disease spread.
    — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Now he is represented by both, an art-world EGOT-level feat that only the late Richard Serra, Jeff Koons and Gerhard Richter achieved at certain points in their careers.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of achieve
Noun
  • And Oscar, stunned at his victory, promises to use his winnings to take the whole cast and crew to dinner.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Following the AfD’s election victory in Saxony-Anhalt, the party’s co-leader, Alice Weidel, declared there would be national elections in Germany before the end of the year.
    — Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of victory
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  • Roger Federer at the 2017 Australian Open After a nearly five-year Grand Slam drought and a right knee injury, Federer triumphed at the 2017 Australian Open at 35 years and 5 months old.
    — Nasha Smith, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2026
  • Yet when this all really mattered — in the 2025 Abu Dhabi finale, when Verstappen was on pole and more than good enough to triumph over the orange pair with the overwhelming full-backing of Red Bull — McLaren’s approach paid dividends.
    — Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of triumph
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  • Insights gained from the pilot project will form the basis for a potential future application of these materials in series-production battery cells.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026
  • After a first dose, people gain protective antibodies quickly and immunity levels peak within about two weeks.
    — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of gain
Verb
  • To do so means leaving behind a life that job-seekers spend months, if not years, navigating administrative hurdles to attain.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Simon pieced together specific sounds to attain the right mood.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of attain
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  • Know More Democratic incumbents in tight races are hoping to reap electoral benefits from 2028 candidates who are coming through their districts.
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The tech sector of the S&P 500 has seen its forward price/earnings multiple contract from 29 to 21 in the past year with the market unwilling to extrapolate the profit surge in the absence of a clear path back to reaping oodles of free cash flow.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
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“Win.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/win. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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