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own goal
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Princeton's WordNet
own goalnoun
(soccer) a goal that results when a player inadvertently knocks the ball into the goal he is defending
"the own goal cost them the game"
How to use own goal in a sentence?
I would consider today's outcome an own goal (by the industry committee) that has missed the opportunity to significantly influence the further process.
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It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itself.
It is great for Singapore, and such an own goal for Hong Kong.
The crowd became hostile very quickly due to wanting to go to work. I sympathize with the aims of Extinction Rebellion but this was an own goal, canning Town is a very working class area. Seeing what they perceived to be middle-class protesters preventing working class people from earning a living didn't go down well.
Fighting a pandemic is like a team trying to win a soccer match, you can’t win if some players are trying to score an own goal.
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- هدف في مرماهArabic
- автоголBulgarian
- autogolCatalan, Valencian
- EigentorGerman
- autogolSpanish
- oma maaliFinnish
- but contre son campFrench
- autogolGalician
- öngólHungarian
- sjálfsmarkIcelandic
- autorete, autogolItalian
- オウンゴールJapanese
- 자책골Korean
- gol samobójczy, samobójPolish
- gol contraPortuguese
- автогол, [[гол]] [[в]] [[свойRussian
- autogolAlbanian
- självmålSwedish
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