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Team learn as being thrashed (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

arsenal

'team' is the definition.
(Arsenal football club)

'learn as being thrashed' is the wordplay.
'being thrashed' indicates an anagram (letters beaten or thrashed around).
'learn'+'as'='learnas'
'learnas' anagrammed gives 'ARSENAL'.

(Other definitions for arsenal that I've seen before include "Store of weapons or English soccer team." , "Premier League side founded by munitions workers in 1886" , "stock" , "Armoury - London football club" , "London premiership football team" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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