beat it

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Teams who were being pressed by opposition forwards at goal-kicks are now playing long, to beat it.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025

Gold could get close to $5000 per ounce in 2026 and beat it in 2027, predicts Deutsche Bank.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 26, 2025

But Martin, working with pathologist Larry J. Stowell, was able to pinpoint the cause of that “rapid blight”—a fungus, Labyrinthula terrestris—and quickly work up a program to beat it back.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

He was anxious to leave — and warned visiting journalists to beat it out of town by sundown.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2025

Once again both boats beat the previous course record, but Washington beat it by a good deal more, coming in at 15:56.4, a commanding 37 seconds ahead of the mark.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown