losers

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  1. noun One that fails to win: the losers of the game.
  2. noun One who takes loss in a specified way: a graceful loser; a poor loser.
  3. noun One that fails consistently, especially a person with bad luck or poor skills: "losers at home seeking wealth and glory in undeveloped countries” (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
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  • The occasion was the Women's Flat Track Derby Association Eastern Regionals, and the losers were the Liberty Belles, the travel team for the brazen, sexed-up Philly Roller Girls.
  • What separates the winners from the losers is the ability to trade through these inevitable losing periods until they hit a home run and profits come. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • The two most destructive and objectively anti-American forces in the Middle East - al-Qaeda affiliates and the Israelis - benefit the most from this fresh outbreak of a festering conflict, and the losers are the Palestinians and the American people, with the former enduring the slaughter and the latter paying for it. —  Antiwar.com Original
  • But the losers were a lot more memorable (average loss 37 percent) than the winners (average gain 10 percent). —  Floyd Norris
  • Other losers will be the 49ers, Marlins, and the Vikings OR Chargers (Whoever does not end up in LA). —  Field of Schemes
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