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- noun Plural form of
Waterloo .
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Examples
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A large portion of folks are just hell-bent upon winning-delivering "Waterloos" to the other side at any cost-including damaging the better interests of the American people.
Politics in the Zeros Byron DeLear 2010
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Your “Waterloos” keep on coming since President Obama was elected and come November your asses will be handed to you ONCE AGAIN.
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Why should they bother to acknowledge these painful Waterloos when they are going to ignore the results anyway?
Archive 2007-08-19 2007
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Why should they bother to acknowledge these painful Waterloos when they are going to ignore the results anyway?
Referendum News 2007
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Now the smallest, closest and most everyday things we do must receive the glorious importance once reserved for the great Waterloos and Hiroshimas and moon landings.
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For now, suffice it to say that I tend to harp on the basics because, frankly, the basics, not matters of style, are where most manuscripts meet their Waterloos.
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Who in our American setting made it the novelist's assignment to chronicle the Waterloos of our own time and the Paris uprisings -- to speak comprehensively and critically of our nation and its culture, in peace and war, in cinema and the boxing ring, and to run for Mayor of New York?
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For now, suffice it to say that I tend to harp on the basics because, frankly, the basics, not matters of style, are where most manuscripts meet their Waterloos.
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We parted at Victoria Station and I decided to cycle on down to Waterloos.
auntie joanna writes Joanna Bogle 2007
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We parted at Victoria Station and I decided to cycle on down to Waterloos.
Archive 2007-06-01 Joanna Bogle 2007
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