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Origin of the word "pyrrhic".

"“He had lost a great part of the forces with which he came, and all his friends and generals except a few,” wrote Plutarch of Pyrrhus of Epirus, a Greek king who defeated the Romans but shattered his army in the process."

https://www.economist.com/britain/2024/01/17/rishi-sunaks-pyrrhic-victory-on-rwanda

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