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3 results for Spielball
Word division: Spiel·ball
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Das Land war längst zum Spielball fremder Mächte geworden. The country had become a plaything of foreign powers by then.

Sie hatte die besten Zeiten lange hinter sich, drohte zum Spielball der organisierten Kriminalität zu werden und verfiel in Agonie Mitte der 1980er Jahre. [G] It had its best years well behind it, was in danger of being at the mercy of organized crime, and agonisingly degenerated in the middle of the 1980s.

Spielball der Natur [G] Nature's plaything

The example sentences [G] were kindly provided by the Goethe Institute.
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