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- noun Plural form of
ultra .
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Examples
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DC needs to improve but he also must not fall prey to what Douglas Hurd calls the "ultras" - those who seek to oppose purely as a point scoring exercise.
No Serious Threat To Cameron Newmania 2007
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After a stadium stampede which left 16 people injured on Sunday, 10 travelling Argentina fans suspected of hooliganism - better known as 'ultras' - were arrested at OR Tambo
iac world news feed 2010
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Even without the match, obsessive PSG fans known as the ultras were in the streets anyway to silently march in memory and protest the shooting death of one of their own ten days ago.
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Initially led by die-hard soccer fans - known as ultras - the protests that began around the country on Thursday were the first since Mr. Mubarak's ouster that at least some demonstrators began not in peace but with the avowed intent to inflict violence on security forces.
NYT > Home Page By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK 2012
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Around him hundreds of young fans known as "ultras", draped in football colours, many in tears, waved aloft photographs of their dead friends and sang club anthems.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Nick Meo 2012
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The defiance and bluster among Egypt's militant soccer fans following the death of at least 74 people in a stadium in Port Said betrayed a sense of foreboding: The "ultras" - the hardcore fans who express their team identity in street battles with rival fans as much as by cheering from the bleachers - are bracing themselves for an existential confrontation with the security forces.
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At the forefront of the violence were die-hard soccer fans, known as ultras, who are convinced that the police bore responsibility for the soccer riot that killed more than 70 fans Wednesday night.
NYT > Home Page By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK 2012
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A group of soccer fans, known as ultras, who days earlier battled police at a stadium, led young men on an attack against the Interior Ministry.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Egypt's notoriously rowdy soccer fans, known as ultras, were a significant component of the anti-Mubarak revolutionary forces in Tahrir Square.
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Around him hundreds of young fans known as "ultras", draped in football colours, many in tears, waved aloft photographs of their dead friends and sang club anthems.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Nick Meo 2012
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