beating

Example Sentences

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But “even though we’re beating it up,” Crooks said of the pollution flowing into the estuary, it’s been amazingly resilient in part because of constant monitoring and management.

From Los Angeles Times

Team GB's women curlers kickstarted their campaign with a superb first victory of these Winter Olympics, beating medal contenders Canada 7-6.

From BBC

After closing out that Six Nations campaign with wins over Italy and Wales, England, without 14 British and Irish Lions, impressed by beating Argentina twice on a two-Test tour.

From BBC

He still has a valid claim at least to being the outsider who keeps beating the incumbents at their own game of nonstop, seven-day-a-week cynicism.

From The Wall Street Journal

So the proper statistical conclusion is that the stock market proceeds to perform equally well, on average, regardless of whether the industrials are beating the transports or vice versa.

From MarketWatch