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- noun
attributive form ofround robin
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Examples
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Norberg, whose team had lost to Canada 6-2 during round-robin action, knew her team had escaped.
Silver lining hard to find as Canada loses curling gold to Sweden 2010
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We both took a nap after that (I'm running on about three hours 'sleep here) and then met up with Paul McCall and Laksen Sirimanne for dinner, over which we had a humorous, round-robin discussion of the early days of the mission.
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Canada's closest call was a 7-6 victory in 11 ends against Norway in round-robin play.
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The tour final is a bit different, because a player can win it all yet emerge with a round-robin loss—or even lose three matches, by getting swept in the round-robin phase or by advancing to the knockout stage with two losses and then getting knocked out.
One Record He May Not Match Carl Bialik 2011
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It was four groups of six teams in round-robin play.
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Rather a two-fold plot scheme with the drama split evenly, done round-robin style with the tense shifts.
Finis marshallpayne1 2009
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Whether you choose to call it a round-robin scheme in house trading, a financial game of "Tag, You're It!" or a real estate-based Ponzi scheme, the last person to sign the papers comes out with a property that has been assessed at a ridiculously inflated value.
George Heymont: The Best of BOA: Bay One Acts Festival Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary George Heymont 2011
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Whether you choose to call it a round-robin scheme in house trading, a financial game of "Tag, You're It!" or a real estate-based Ponzi scheme, the last person to sign the papers comes out with a property that has been assessed at a ridiculously inflated value.
George Heymont: The Best of BOA: Bay One Acts Festival Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary George Heymont 2011
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He added one of his own—one that randomly cooperates and defects—and pitched all of them against each other in a round-robin tournament.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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After the round-robin play on Saturday, we ended up in a five-way tie for first place in our group, which is crazy.
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