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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a single defeat" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to one instance of losing in a competition or conflict.
Example: "Despite a single defeat in the tournament, the team remained optimistic about their chances in the next season."
Alternatives: "one loss" or "a lone defeat."
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A single defeat was seen as a temporary setback.
France wins the round-robin Rugby Union Six Nations without a single defeat.
"NEVER confuse a single defeat with a final defeat," wrote Scott Fitzgerald, the novelist.
Peter Taylor took over the job as caretaker for a single defeat to Italy, but was never really in contention.
James could enhance his legend by scripting a Heat comeback, or further muddy his legacy with a single defeat.
His outburst was too rash, too extreme to be the product of a single defeat, or even two.
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It was as if some immense laboratory experiment had gone on for half a century according to rigorous principles: Take a single defeated society, weary with guilt, wounds and hatred, and divide it in two.
This sentiment echoes a lifetime in the service of Bayern, the club who consider every single defeat as an embarrassing stain on their reputation.
A single Miami defeat could launch Florida upward.
A single, serious defeat could see him, and resistance to the Taliban, finished forever.
A single social defeat session exerted strong activation of excitatory LDTg neurons as evidenced by an increase in c-Fos expression, a classical marker of neuronal activity.
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