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defeat
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go down in defeat and go down to defeat
Fig. to submit to defeat; to be defeated. The team went down in defeat again. She fears going down in defeat.

snatch victory from the jaws of defeat

Cliché to win at the last moment. At the last moment, the team snatched victory from the jaws of defeat with a last-second full-court basket.
See also: jaw, snatch, victory
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Perhaps the most significant feature of religious reason, and perhaps the feature from which all the other differences between religious reason and secular reason derive, is the oft-touted claim by believers that religious reasons carry an infallible supreme authority that guarantees the truth of such claims against all potential epistemic defeaters.
Religion and liberal democracy by Harris, James F. / The Humanist
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Much like the late Jeff Buckley, his songs have jazzy, soulful country stylings, as in We're Not In Charleston Anymore and Hey Self Defeater.
Age of Miracles is over for Mark by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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