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If the best and the brightest, with their highly paid professional staff, are unable to beat the market over the long term, what makes you think you can do any better?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
“We have to be able to not beat ourselves.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
That contest drew national attention, but Brown beat Whitman by nearly 13 percentage points.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
By its count, the event beat 1997 in observations going back to 1949.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Zora thinks for a beat and then says, “Okay, I could rock with that.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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According to Meta’s benchmark data, the flagship Muse Wonder Full beats out top OpenAI and Anthropic models on memory retention, financial analysis and long-horizon coding tasks — though rival models maintain advantages in other areas.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
She singled out the city’s dozens of tusi banquets—dinner theater shows sold as exotic cultural experiences, with slickly coiffed young Tibetan men wiggling across the stage to hip-hop beats for an appreciative, largely female audience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
“He’s a kid who beats to his own drum,” coach Jon Ellinghouse said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
In other words, they only depend on "how many beats there are in a measure," not "what type of note gets a beat."
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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He left in January after England were well beaten in last year's Ashes, and McDermott has had to piece together a team with minimal preparation.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
On Friday, the original version of Babydoll moved from number three to number two in the official UK charts - beaten only by Taylor Swift's Patient Zero.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
The men's team - Truman, Ed Lowe and Harry Ledingham-Horn - finished fifth in the qualifying stage but were beaten by fourth-placed Australia in the opening round of head-to-head races.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
No team since the 1923 New York Yankees has been swept by a postseason opponent one year and beaten that same opponent the next October, and those Yankees had Babe Ruth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Planting his lance on Don Quixote's helmet, the victor said, "You are beaten, Sir Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha, and you'll die if you do not confess what we agreed upon."
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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You will notice that, even with beating the market in their latest fiscal year, the average college and university endowment is behind its benchmark for longer-term returns.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
The Sailors closed the regular season by beating Huntington Beach for the third time in four meetings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
North American ticket sales for opening weekend of the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything,” beating expectations and coming in second only to the new “Street Fighter” videogame adaptation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
And they started brightly, with Katie Buchanan collecting the ball on the wing, beating a defender and sprinting over the line to give them a fifth-minute lead in her first international start.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
‘No!’ she shouted, beating the snow with her fists.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Music - Introductory
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