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"text": "He lost ground in his career due to his illness."
},
{
"text": "They are losing ground to foreign competitors every year."
},
{
"ref": "2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman",
"text": "The pre-match mantra from the Scotland camp may have been of it not being a “must win” game but that fooled no-one, Poland’s win in Georgia earlier last night simply crystallised how vital it was for the Scots not to lose any more ground at this stage of an intensely competitive campaign.",
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"(idiomatic) To suffer loss or disadvantage; to experience a setback."
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "terrein verliezen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "menettää jalansijaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "perdre du terrain"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "en perte de vitesse"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "an Boden verlieren"
},
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "cháno édafos",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "χάνω έδαφος"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "perdere terreno"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
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"word": "tracić przewagę"
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},
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},
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"ref": "2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman",
"text": "The pre-match mantra from the Scotland camp may have been of it not being a “must win” game but that fooled no-one, Poland’s win in Georgia earlier last night simply crystallised how vital it was for the Scots not to lose any more ground at this stage of an intensely competitive campaign.",
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"word": "terrein verliezen"
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"sense": "Translations",
"word": "menettää jalansijaa"
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"word": "perdre du terrain"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "Translations",
"word": "an Boden verlieren"
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"sense": "Translations",
"word": "χάνω έδαφος"
},
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"word": "perdere terreno"
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