beat it

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Bessent and Takaichi jointly worry about a wobbly yen, which brushed the psychological barrier of 160 to the dollar on April 30, before official intervention beat it back to about 158.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

Plus, most of DHS is reopening, and Michael Jackson fans tell movie critics to beat it.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

"It would heal a very deep wound. The only way to beat it would be to win it this year," he told Spanish media.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

It didn’t sound great — it sounded like a demo that you’d give to a musician in hopes that they would beat it.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

I couldn’t blame him for looking so low-down and beat; it ’peared every bird in Dee-troit had a job of stopping by each day and doo-dooing on him.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis