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nontriumph en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + triumph.

Meanings

1. An event that is not a triumph.
   • But factor in Paige’s delectable flair for exaggerating (“Methuselah was my first bat boy”), his convenient ability to forget the nontriumphs […] and his willingness to let his memoirs be co-written by white authors who shared his eagerness to embellish — this yields the morass into which Mr. Tye has intrepidly waded. 2009 June 15, Janet Maslin, “This Baseball Patriarch Could Really Pitch Himself”, in New York Times:

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