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The Chargers didn’t do anything particularly well last week, and the Raiders beat Miami by two touchdowns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

"They've found it quite unedifying to be honest that this seems to have been used by some others as a stick to beat Naomi Long with."

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Retailers like Sam’s Club now have more tools at their disposal to beat legacy consumer-goods makers at their own game.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

He imagined himself as a steroid-enhanced bare-chested wrestler, able to beat actual musclemen at arm-wrestling.

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026

We beat the dungeon mere seconds before Lorren’s mom ordered her to get off the game or she’d shut off the electricity in the whole house.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

But we weren’t thinking about making hip-hop beats and rapping 30 years later.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Nothing beats a cheerful holiday episode in the summertime, am I right?

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

But there has not been a hint all year of Russell being able to put together a run of results where he consistently beats Antonelli, which is now his only hope.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

The results snapped a nine-quarter streak of top-line beats.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

I scribbled 110 beats next to the words “Initial Resting Heart Rate” in my notebook.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Israel, whose senior team have qualified for the World Cup just once, had beaten global powerhouses Brazil in the quarter-finals of the under-20 version of the tournament.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

I can tell you now that, whoever you are playing, if you get beaten - and especially beaten heavily like Coventry were by Brighton on Sunday - then it resonates with you.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The trouble was that he had never once beaten Zverev.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

And by the end of the afternoon, Rybakina had beaten the two-time defending champion 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 to secure the first U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

It was exactly how they had beaten the French.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Office for National Statistics reported Friday that gross domestic product increased by 0.4% in July, beating economists’ flat consensus forecast for the month.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

China’s industrial production grew 5.2% in August compared with a year earlier, beating the 4.7% growth anticipated by economists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

U.S. core inflation, a measure that strips out food and energy which gauges underlying price trends, rose 0.3% on month in August, beating expectations, data from the Labor Department showed on Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Antoine Semenyo and Erling Haaland were keeping the ball when it was played up to them, as well as winning free-kicks or beating people.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

That is, as long as nobody outside the closet could hear the frantic beating of his heart, which seemed to get louder and louder by the minute.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix