beat
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“I think we beat ourselves,” Manning said after the game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
“You’ve got to still pitch like he’s the best in the world and trust your stuff and go beat him at his game, and do your job.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
Finally, the stumbling continues … as they cannot beat teams they should or pull out potential victories over the more challenging ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
But the Old Lady once reached a Uefa Cup semi-final and beat Chelsea in the Champions League in 1999.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
“Eutaenia sirtalis,” Tansy said without skipping a beat.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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It also overestimated diastolic blood pressure, the bottom number, or the pressure in the arteries when the heart rests between beats, by 4.0 mmHg.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Analysts at Maybank don’t think there has been enough of a shift in the BOJ’s stance to expect a pace of tightening that beats market expectations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
For one, it was a blast of cold coffee to the face to realize that what qualifies as a career-derailing flop in 2006 meets or beats the quality of most made-for-Netflix features.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
The album is loaded with Anthrax trademarks — serrated, crunchy riffs, soaring lead vocals, bludgeoning beats, and scorching guitar — but there are also galactic noise effects, angular song structures and atypical chord configurations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Molly knew what lying sounded like: a racing heart, missed beats of speech, an averted gaze.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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Alisson: Could do nothing to keep out Erling Haaland's strike then beaten by a beauty from Jeremy Doku and some solid footwork from Rayan Cherki.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Wales have never beaten a top-20 ranked nation in a competitive fixture and are likely to need to do so to qualify.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Only four trillion-dollar companies, including Nvidia and Apple, have beaten the S&P 500 this year, but recent rallies have left several looking overbought.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
The host Patriots hadn’t lost a league game since 2017 and had beaten Cleveland 13 consecutive times, by an average score of 40-8.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
He had a hard fight, for the wise men argued well, but he didn’t know when he was beaten and stood to his colors like a man.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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Yet beating the market was still difficult: The percentage of mutual funds lagging the S&P 500 was virtually no different in the first half of this year than the past 25 years’ average.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
He did not let his second chance slip away, storming through to the final and taking the trophy after beating Tyler Spence, a teacher from Wigan, in a closely-fought contest.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Their offense is still struggling, Justin Herbert took a beating at Seattle, and here comes that Broncos pass rush.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
India went on to lose to England in the final, but beating Australia was a monumental hurdle overcome.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
I’m afraid my heart will leap out of my chest, it’s beating so hard.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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