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It implies the defeated acknowledgment that if things aren't better by now, they won't be getting better.
Adult taste can be demanding work – so hard, in fact, that some of us, when we become adults, selectively take up a few childish things, as though in defeated acknowledgment that adult taste, with its many bewilderments, is frequently more trouble than it is worth.
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If overeagerness occasionally undermined them, Australia's satisfaction at a victory that did not include a bonus point, something that in previous tournaments would have been regarded as a moral defeat, was acknowledgment of Fiji's rise in status.
Never defeated.
Spain was defeated and surrendered.
"We have decided to silence our guns". The statement made no mention of surrender and did not concede defeat, but the acknowledgment of finality suggested that the rebels knew the war was over.
Rock defeats scissors, scissors defeats paper, and paper defeats rock.
It's very defeating.
But antinoise activists worried it was a tacit acknowledgment of defeat.
If anything, Mr. Sarkozy's acknowledgment of defeat contrasted with Mr. Putin's extraordinary grip on power in the Kremlin.
In politics, it is the conversation nobody wants to have: the brief, gracious, stilted acknowledgment of defeat.
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