beat it

Example Sentences

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Van Der Beek, who died Wednesday after a colorectal cancer diagnosis, seemed to embrace the ethos of joining in everyone’s fun when there’s no sense of trying to beat it.

From Los Angeles Times

The kraken twisted its great head to look: for one beat it hung there in the water, blinking its huge gray eyes.

From Literature

Revenue of $113.2 billion missed analysts’ forecasts of $113.8 billion, and while the company eked out an earnings beat, it guided for full-year 2026 sales of $439 billion, below the $453 billion that Wall Street had expected.

From Barron's

And beat it they did, with the average Barron’s pick last year gaining 10.4% from the time we recommended it to the end of the year, outperforming the average benchmark gain of 9.2% over the same periods.

From Barron's

In the past few weeks, I have thought too much about AI and gone down the stat route to try to beat it at its own game, but that's not how I won the predictions title in previous seasons.

From BBC