I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a yell of surprise/delight/triumph etc
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Dan gave a yell of delight when Larsson scored.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
final
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The nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw the final triumph of scientific medicine under male control.
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There was, as we have said before, no final triumph for puritanism.
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In one way, the novel is a final triumph of realism, representing character more inwardly and intimately than ever previously.
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After killing her former friend, she is ready for her final triumph but instead is killed by his riding whip.
great
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The cracks were already beginning to show at the moment of their greatest triumph .
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Beachey moved on to greater triumphs .
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It was an even greater triumph of engineering.
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At this time, it was great triumph for me to find that Rachel could bear her beloved Jacob no children.
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The stadium was the scene of his greatest triumph - the World Cup final of 1966.
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For Mountbatten it was unquestionably a great personal triumph .
major
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It was Nicol's first major triumph in such a tournament and I was pleased for him.
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Reagan personally saw it as a major triumph .
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Their reception was middling but this was a major triumph .
personal
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He felt as if he was on the brink of the greatest personal triumph of his life.
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It was also an undoubted personal and political triumph for Margaret Thatcher.
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That first time had been a personal triumph , a great adventure.
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His own position has been greatly strengthened and the election has been a personal triumph for him.
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For Mountbatten it was unquestionably a great personal triumph .
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For Davenport it represented a personal triumph , following the miserable time he endured while with Boro.
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It was a personal triumph for the Liverpool skipper, even if it left Birmingham boss Trevor Francis in tears.
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My congratulations are of course extended to Virginia Bottomley on her personal triumph and her weekend elevation to the Cabinet.
political
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It was also an undoubted personal and political triumph for Margaret Thatcher.
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Robert Kennedy was assassinated in the kitchen following his greatest political triumph .
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Mr Heseltine may well count this a political triumph .
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So why is the Government not building on this political triumph ?
small
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The latter part of the thirties saw small triumphs amidst a larger failure.
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She listened to the stories of small triumphs brought back from the dances.
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So any small triumph by the cook-of-the-day was appreciated by the rest of us.
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However, mingling with that frustration was a small feeling of triumph .
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It builds on what it has done well, drawing strength from small triumphs and symptoms of gradual improvement.
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She moved around the font into the chapel and at once gave a small cry of triumph .
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Chosen her as she sat drinking tea and eating chocolate biscuits and enjoying her small triumph .
ultimate
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Therein lay the seed of ultimate triumph .
■ NOUN
cup
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However, in 1933 he coached Britain to a Davis Cup triumph .
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The Arsenal machine had been perfected, and the 1930 Cup triumph was to usher in a glorious future.
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Despite appointing a succession of managers his only return has been one League Cup triumph .
■ VERB
celebrate
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Meanwhile we have the jubilant pictures of Hillary Clinton celebrating her husband's triumph in which she has played no small part.
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Memorial monuments usually celebrate triumphs rather than the state's decimation of cultures and peoples.
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It was also in the Celtic countries that Romanization celebrated its most truculent triumph .
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In 167 he celebrated a three-day triumph .
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It celebrates not a triumph over the struggle for existence, but a catastrophe.
hail
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The surprise payment was hailed as a triumph by the receivers of the Belfast car company which collapsed ten years ago.
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If it is confirmed by longer and larger clinical trials, this will rightly be hailed as a scientific triumph .
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The popular press hailed this triumph of law over anarchic visions of order.
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The birth is being hailed as a triumph for the zoo's breeding programme.
repeat
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Can United repeat their 1999 Euro triumph ?
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Kramer was never able to repeat his triumphs of those earlier decades.
represent
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For Davenport it represented a personal triumph , following the miserable time he endured while with Boro.
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Materialism represents the triumph of theory over experience.
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But his elevation represented the triumph of the cronies over the men the Alsops favored.
return
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In the battle that followed the Chaos Hordes were defeated and Magnus returned home in triumph .
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I had seen the march of feudal armies, the victors returning in triumph , captive princes led past in chains.
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Charles returned in great triumph , indisputable King of Aquitaine.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a cry of triumph
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Arsenal's recent League Cup triumph .
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Despite many local triumphs, their party stands little chance of winning a national election.
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Mary's final triumph was to see both of her boys go to college.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A fine sweat was beading his forehead but there was a grin of triumph on his face.
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As the newlyweds settled into the four-hour trip, the excitement of triumph over family disapproval receded.
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If it is confirmed by longer and larger clinical trials, this will rightly be hailed as a scientific triumph .
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In 167 he celebrated a three-day triumph .
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It is a triumph of aspiration and worship, salvation and conscience, over the compulsions of the flesh.
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It would have been nice to stay with her, glory in her triumphs, he there to cushion her defeats.
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The evidence that Halloween is big is everywhere, beginning with its commercial triumph .
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The Government Commission was established here in triumph , and sank here into obscurity.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But not until 1936 did both the necessities and advantages of this course begin to triumph in the field of ideas.
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But what is really important, it will be argued, is that the system triumphed.
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Iverson had come home and triumphed.
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The head had triumphed over the heart.
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We have triumphed over the unprincipled dissemination of facts.