Defeats
Failures
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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A string of humiliating failures and defeats later, she's become far more irritable and arrogant... and just a little unhinged.
Source: Characters / Nippon Ichi - Makuta from BIONICLE started out menacing enough, but his constant defeats and failures gradually robbed him of his credibility.
Source: Knight of Cerebus -
Cosmic Retcon: Ventris has actually noticed how all of the Ultramarines' past failures and defeats have been retroactively either undone or made so minor as to be irrelevant, including his own personal My Greatest Failure moment.
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