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"win" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often victory (7 letters).
Definitions
To be victorious, gain, or achieve first place.
Word origin
From Middle English winnen, from Old English winnan (“to labour, swink, toil,”) (compare Old English ġewinnan (“conquer, obtain, gain; endure, bear, suffer; be ill”)), from Proto-West Germanic *winnan, from Proto-Germanic *winnaną (“to swink, labour, win, gain, fight”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, wish, desire, love”).
Used in a sentence
“For the glory, the power to win the Black Lord, I will search for the Emerald Sword.”
“I well may gang out, love, but I'll never win home.”
“No sooner did I get my freedom than my footsteps began to be dogged by the spies of the Iron Heel. It was necessary that they should be thrown off the track, and that I should win to California.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer12 curated clues
01“Be victorious”3 letters
02“Come in first”3 letters
03“Come out ahead”3 letters
04“Earn first place”3 letters
05“Earn victory”3 letters
06“Finish first”3 letters
07“Prevail”3 letters
08“Score a victory”3 letters
09“Take first place”3 letters
10“First place”3 letters
11“Take victory”3 letters
12“Come out on top”3 letters
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