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beating

[bee-ting] / ˈbi tɪŋ /


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In its first quarterly earnings release since its $86-billion initial public offering, SpaceX in August reported that it grew its revenue and sharply cut its losses while beating Wall Street estimates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

In Pittsburgh, starter prices had jumped 5%, beating the upper end of the market’s 2.6% growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

One day after Levine's beating, settlers attacked a convoy of European diplomats including the French and Belgian consuls general in Jerusalem as they went through the town of Taybeh in the West Bank on Saturday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

All at once, in a blizzard of flying feathers and tasty, furiously beating wings, the chickens rose into the air.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Later it took further beatings as they worked out how the 8,000-pound horse could be dragged over dunes and log rollers by actors with ropes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

His mission was to reshape an England team scarred by years of Ashes beatings.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025

“People don’t have the bandwidth to respond with the kind of outrage that they would when you saw the beatings at Pan Pacific Park,” said Abdullah, referring to the LAPD’s response to protests in 2020.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2025

As one British study titled "Banter, bollockings and beatings" made clear, an often macho culture can prevail, including bizarre induction rituals.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2024

Not from Gebu, not from beatings and hunger, not from Ibni and his hateful wineskins.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw


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