beaten
Example Sentences
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After being beaten by the Oilers like a drum annually, even top-ranked Colorado is a refreshing change.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026
But you also shouldn’t count out LeBron; the kid from Akron has beaten the odds before.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
But having beaten Gerwyn Price in the quarter-finals and held off a fight back from world number two Luke Humphries to win a thrilling semi-final 6-5, Clayton proved a challenge too far.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Thatcher shot back, “they might have beaten us at our national sport, but we managed to beat them at their national sport twice in the 20th century.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
As he took the elevator down to the ground floor, he reflected that he’d saved thousands of schoolchildren, he’d beaten Herod Sayle, and he hadn’t been killed or even badly hurt.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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