How native speakers pronounce “defeat”

slow down with your partner together we can and will defeat the cult of speed

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and offer you handouts on street-corners of cynicism and defeat, you tell them that they really ought to meet your mother.

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but a stone-faced stare might also mean that someone is stoically accepting defeat, which is in fact what Chechen culture prescribes for someone

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