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  • 71lose its grip — lose (your/its) grip to be unable to control something. Changes in your body can make you feel like you re losing your grip. For many years now the old political parties have been losing their grip on the South …

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  • 72lose grip — lose (your/its) grip to be unable to control something. Changes in your body can make you feel like you re losing your grip. For many years now the old political parties have been losing their grip on the South …

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  • 73lose one's grip — ► lose one s grip become unable to understand or control one s situation. Main Entry: ↑grip …

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  • 74lose your temper (with somebody) — lose/keep your ˈtemper (with sb) idiom to fail/manage to control your anger • She lost her temper with a customer and shouted at him. • I struggle to keep my temper with the kids when they misbehave. Main entry: ↑temperidiom …

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  • 75lose — verb 1 not keep ADVERB ▪ forever VERB + LOSE ▪ be about to, be going to, be likely to, stand to ▪ The company stands to lose if this deal falls through …

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  • 76lose — v. (past and past part. lost) 1 tr. be deprived of or cease to have, esp. by negligence or misadventure. 2 tr. a be deprived of (a person, esp. a close relative) by death. b suffer the loss of (a baby) in childbirth. 3 tr. become unable to find;… …

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  • 77lose — verb (lost; losing) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English losian to perish, lose, from los destruction; akin to Old English lēosan to lose; akin to Old Norse losa to loosen, Latin luere to atone for, Greek lyein to loosen, dissolve, destroy …

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  • 78control — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 power over sb/sth ADJECTIVE ▪ absolute, complete, full, total ▪ effective, proper (esp. BrE) ▪ close …

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  • 79Control Data Corporation — (CDC) was a supercomputer firm. For most of the 1960s, it built the fastest computers in the world by far, only losing that crown in the 1970s after Seymour Cray left the company to found Cray Research, Inc. (CRI). CDC was one of the nine major… …

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  • 80Control track — A control track is a track that runs along an outside edge of a standard analog videotape (including VHS). The control track encodes a series of pulses, each pulse corresponding to the beginning of each frame. This allows the video tape player to …

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