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Language students finally losing memory spoil one answer (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

grammarians

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'language students' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'finally losing memory spoil one answer' is the wordplay.
'finally' says to take the final letters.
'memory' becomes 'ram' (Random Access Memory on a computer).
'spoil' becomes 'mar' (synonyms).
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'answer' becomes 'ans' (abbreviation for answer).
The last letter of 'losing' is 'g'.
'g'+'ram'+'mar'+'i'+'ans'='GRAMMARIANS'

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