won
verb
uk
/wʌn/ us
/wʌn/Meaning of won in English
(Definition of won from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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won
us
/wʌn/past simple and past participle of win
Examples of won
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Would these candidates have won without the electoral advantage accorded to them because of their states' partisan compositions?
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Among claims and counterclaims of faulty ballots and fraudulent talliessupporters of both camps claimed that their man had won.
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If more seats can be won by nominating more candidatesthen the original strategy is an undernomination.
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Leaders on both sides of the political fence recognized that national legitimacy had to be won to ensure the health of the new federal union.
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In the endit was the opposition who won the ideological war by more successfully deploying maternal imagery.
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Howeverfrom an outsider's vantage point with a winner-take-all perspectiveit is difficult to assess who won.
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Opposition parties won six of these 121 elections in 1988which leaves 115 municipalities at risk in 1992.
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The antimimetic theory also lends itself to various positivistic interpretations epitomized by the various neurobiological theories of trauma that have won widespread acceptance today.
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The basic result was that the coalition parties won a reduced majorityeach party losing seats.
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There was no cyclethe best alternative won.
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No candidate of any other parties (except some independents) won a seat in the single-member districts.
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Opposition parties won eighty-three of these 515 elections.
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Most parties co-operated and most sailors won their wages expeditiously.
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Patients entered the project at different times; some benefits won were recurrentbut for an unknown periodwhile others were 'one-off' payments.
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He has written more than 200 technical publicationsand has won several best-paper awards.
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