winning streak
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- noun
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racha de victorias
- Orioles over the Red Sox 3-2 last night, extending the Os' winning streak to 7.
You go on this crazy winning streak, fighter of the decade.
- You go on this crazy winning streak, fighter of the decade.
- Three and oh, since Call of Duty, Kyler Murray, they're on a four-game winning streak and they're playing good ball here in the middle of the year.
- This kid went on like a five day winning streak and by the third day I was like, I wanted to throw my controller at him because he would just, he's relentless.
Examples
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Michigan looks to continue its winning streak in their final home game.
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For Jansen, this is a chance to extend his current winning streak to 5.
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Maybe all you need every now and then is a winning streak.
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This guy's got a hell of a winning streak.
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Feet, my boy, this looks like the start of a winning streak.
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For many years, he won, but in the summer of 2006, his winning streak was broken.
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The industry had a winning streak of more than a decade.
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Everything on the line here as Halifax looks to extend their winning streak to four.
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The Dow and S&P 500 are on their longest winning streak since January 2011.
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The team celebrated a fantastic winning streak after securing five victories in a row.
Synonyms
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A series of similar events happening without a break
Antonyms
How Long
- Jargon
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a period of consecutive wins' is directly and transparently composed from 'winning' (victorious) and 'streak' (a continuous sequence), so the overall sense is predictable from the parts. This noun–noun combination and the concept of a sequence of successes is cross-linguistically common, so an average B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun winning streak gives a simple picture: winning means getting victories and a streak is a long, unbroken line, like a mark with no gaps. So a winning streak means a run of 'wins in a row' where someone or a team keeps winning.