{
  "id": "win.victory",
  "term": "win",
  "sense": "victory",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "social",
  "domain": "competition",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to benefit by creating a difference that puts one object over others",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "benefits.advantage",
      "difference.relation",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "create.production",
      "object.entity",
      "put.placement"
    ],
    "interaction": "The act of creating a difference through placement establishes one object's advantage over distinct others, resulting in victory.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "superior position established",
      "relative triumph",
      "achieved distinction through change"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Team USA won the women's 4x100m medley relay by 1.2 seconds.",
      "domain": "sports"
    },
    {
      "text": "AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol in 2016 by creating irreversible board advantages through novel move sequences.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bacteria with CRISPR-modified genomes outcompeted wild strains in petri dishes at MIT in 2013.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "benefits.advantage",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "id": "loss.economic",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "win",
    "winning",
    "wins",
    "won"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts: create.production, object.entity, put.placement. Definition was correct but underspecified; components now fully support it."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-win.victory"
}