noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
practical certainty/disaster/sell-out etc
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It was a practical certainty that he would be trying to raise more loans long before these were ever repaid.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But this was a small price to pay for insurance against a leadership sell-out .
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Co-operating with him might lead to a sell-out before they had even started.
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It's another sell-out at Lansdowne Road this afternoon, only the thriving black market will have tickets for sale.
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Not surprisingly, the show was a sell-out .
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The anarchist solution was more imaginative - neatly avoiding the possibility of sell-out by having no leaders at all.
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The huge sell-out reformation shows earlier this year were something they never achieved in their chart heyday.