Word: defeatable
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Many council members have deemed the failure of the referendum a major defeat, after having invested a great deal of time and energy into supporting its passage...
...With the defeat, Harvard dropped below the .500 mark for the first time this season...
...only 2.07 runs a game, farther below the major league average than any other pitcher's record. If that math is too hard, try this: Martinez's 23 wins brought his talent-poor Red Sox to the American League championship, where the ace handed the Yankees their only defeat of the play-offs...
...benefits and protections enjoyed by their heterosexual counterparts. But the ruling is something of a mixed bag for gay-rights advocates. While the state has already approved legal protections to gays' and lesbians' housing, employment and civil rights, TIME writer John Cloud says, "this ruling is more of a defeat than a victory." The court, rather than make what Cloud calls "a truly groundbreaking ruling," stopped short of deciding whether same-sex couples' rights would be established through a formal marriage or a statewide system of domestic partnerships, leaving that decision for the state legislature's 2000 session...
...recent games in which Dartmouth has shot poorly from behind the arc, its offense has sputtered. In its game against UNH on Nov. 26, the Big Green connected on just 4-of-30 attempted treys, and went on to lose, 75-57, in its most lopsided defeat of the year...