| election defeat | 7.11 | Nationalist party suffers election defeat. | ||
| shock defeat | 2.90 | ...a shock defeat. | ||
| league defeat | 2.24 | It was their first league defeat in four months. | ||
| season defeat | 2.04 | He had no records of victories and defeats this season. | ||
| first-round defeat | 1.58 | They blamed him for the first-round defeat. | ||
| surprise defeat | 1.32 | Hantuchova made no excuses for her surprise defeat. | ||
| playoff defeat | 1.25 | He had already tasted the agony of playoff defeat. | ||
| inning defeat | 1.05 | Zimbabwe suffered an innings defeat in the first test at Nagpur. | ||
| landslide defeat | 0.72 | In the event of a landslide defeat, Barak would face intense pressure to step down as Labor Party leader. | ||
| series defeat | 0.72 | A series defeat or a draw will promote South Africa as the new leaders. | ||
| championship defeat | 0.66 | What bugged Krzyzewski was what followed the championship defeat. | ||
| battlefield defeat | 0.53 | His dismissal followed major battlefield defeats in the war. | ||
| overtime defeat | 0.53 | And this loss will help, just like the overtime defeat to Kansas. | ||
| test defeat | 0.53 | England has lost every match on tour including two record test defeats to Australia and New Zealand. | ||
| referendum defeat | 0.46 | Ahern, embarrassed by the referendum defeat, has committed Ireland to stage a second ballot, probably in October. | ||
| court defeat | 0.39 | The problem with that strategy is that a court defeat is always a possibility. | ||
| third-round defeat | 0.39 | But a third-round defeat in Miami in mid-March dashed his high-flying hopes. | ||
| wicket defeat | 0.39 | Zimbabwe crashed to an eight wicket defeat against Sri Lanka Sunday in their first test. | ||
| year defeat | 0.39 | A Ransom handed Corona Cool her only defeat this year. | ||
| five-wicket defeat | 0.33 | The host were eliminated after their five-wicket defeat on Saturday by Sri Lanka. |