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And as messed up as it is, you could write every single day on this beat about how bad things are at different media companies and choose your company of the week.

From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2024

When Spence walked from the tunnel, accompanied by regional rapper BigXThaPlug, slurring off beat about the greatness of the state they were from and riding ATVs with diamond chains, folk started shimmying in the crowd.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2023

Lineker: It was from his own half - he beat about five players and it was a great finish.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022

So maybe there should be a beat about struggles with poverty, and another on the effects of criminal justice.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2020

Every time I got it close to the raft, it beat about with such frenzy that I was cowed into letting out some line.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel




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