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Free sign up"roundly defeated" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used when talking about someone or something that received a decisive defeat or drubbing. For example, "The veteran team was roundly defeated by their much younger opponents."
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Her coalition in North Rhine-Westphalia was roundly defeated.
Intended to make a statement, the amendment was roundly defeated.
Osborne was, in any case, roundly defeated at the hustings.
In 1980 a referendum there on "sovereignty-association" was roundly defeated.
In May, the Brown-Kaufman amendment was put to a vote and was roundly defeated.
In 1923 a group of American bowlers toured Sweden and were roundly defeated by their hosts.
But she was roundly defeated by Carlos Rivas Zamora, a little-known FMLN lawyer.
Yet whenever their proposition has been put to the British electorate, they have been roundly defeated.
Sanders went on TV after his defeat to concede that he'd been roundly defeated.
The northern president, with the support of the French and the Angolans, was roundly defeated.
Whereby twenty years ago President Obama would have been roundly defeated by an establishment candidate like Mitt Romney.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com