beaten

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Bessembinder also considered this question: If you bought and held only a subset of the stocks in the S&P 500, would you have beaten the index?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026

Fellow rising American star Iva Jovic, who has beaten her twice this season, agrees: “She takes the ball super early ... she’s a dangerous player and great person, too.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2026

The Scots defeated Haiti 1-0 in their opening Group C match in Boston, the same city where they then lost 1-0 to Morocco, before being beaten 3-0 by Brazil in Miami.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2026

They haven’t beaten anyone good in a long time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

We hiked through the sparse woods, making our way carefully down the beaten path we had created that summer, the summer of the mariposas.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall