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beam

[beem] / bim /


VERB
broadcast on air waves
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VERB
smile broadly
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VERB
shine, as a light
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VERB
make electronic transfer
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Example Sentences

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Chiles, though, did rebound with a clean beam and dismount for a 9.9500 score to get the Bruins back in it.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

The Bruins didn’t bounce back quickly on beam in the second rotation.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

For the first time, researchers directly measured how arsenic-73 captures a proton to form selenium-74 using a rare isotope beam.

From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026

A doctor switches the focus of the laser in his hand to the right side of Scott’s head, telling me that the beam guides the stem cells to where they’re “needed most.”

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

I placed the ball in the teleporter under the beam of protophotonic gamma flash.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth




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