The phrase "a clear loss" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where the outcome is evidently negative or unfavorable, often in contexts like sports, business, or personal situations.
Example: "After reviewing the final scores, it was evident that the team suffered a clear loss in the championship game."
Alternatives: "an obvious defeat" or "a distinct setback."
Comments of the parent-researchers quoted in the article demonstrate a clear loss of this objectivity.
They resell a painting for a clear loss, the reverse of what happened in Part One.
And Mr. Milosevic cannot be sure, if he tries to override a clear loss in elections, that the army and police will back him.
If a renewed focus on "majority reassurance" then comes at the cost of minority integration there is a clear loss for social justice (our punitive asylum debates offer one case study).
When I took it down, on Labor Day, the crone of a salami weighed four pounds (a clear loss of two and a quarter pounds), and was just eight and a half inches around.
The year 1992 is something of a borderline case — job growth was sluggish enough that you might have expected a loss for Mr. Bush, but not necessarily a clear loss.
But neither Kanepi nor Kimiko Date-Krumm should be able to knock out French Open champion Li Na, who seems to have regained her form after a clear loss of conditioning after Wimbledon.
Any legislation less potent than Nassau's would be a clear loss for the mayor, who has brought the same passion and commitment to this legislation that he did to his crusade to gain control of the public school system during the summer.
In fact, the correct prediction using the published formula of V = 36.75 + 1.84L, where V = the percentage of the two-party split going to the incumbent and L = the number of Keys favoring the incumbent party, is 46 percent, just 5 percentage points higher than his actual percentage of 41 percent and a clear loss for the incumbent party.
