beat it
Example Sentences
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"I don't know how another show could beat it."
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
Gold could get close to $5000 per ounce in 2026 and beat it in 2027, predicts Deutsche Bank.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 26, 2025
But Martin, working with pathologist Larry J. Stowell, was able to pinpoint the cause of that “rapid blight”—a fungus, Labyrinthula terrestris—and quickly work up a program to beat it back.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
The director credits his touring drummer, Scott Seiver, for helping him beat it.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025
The glass of mead was now knocking quite insistently on the side of Vernon’s head; he attempted to beat it away.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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