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beat it

verb as in leave hastily

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You just have to find ways to beat it back.

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He kicked it and pecked it and beat it with his wings.

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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.

“With neobiani, you take a block of meat, slice it thinly, you beat it with the back of the knife to make it very tender, and then you cook it on a grill, like a KBBQ,” he told Salon.

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The director credits his touring drummer, Scott Seiver, for helping him beat it.

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