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  1. Defeating

    of Defeat

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of defeating in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of defeating in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of defeating in a Sentence

  1. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

    No one can ever win by defeating someone; you only win by letting someone win.

  2. Bernardino Leon:

    Defeating terrorism in Libya can only be achieved through the political and institutional determination of a united Libyan government, which will need the strong and unequivocal support from the international community in confronting the myriad challenges facing Libya.

  3. President Nicolas Maduro:

    It's a strategy to try and upset the people and turn them to extremes, to destabilize the country, but the people are defeating it in the street, and the government is working in the street.

  4. James Fenimore Cooper:

    Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

  5. Benjamin Hooks:

    There are a lot of ways an oppressed people can rise. One way to rise is to study, to be smarter than your oppressor. The concept of rising against oppression through physical contact is stupid and self-defeating. It exalts brawn over brain. And the most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

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