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beat out

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquishverb

    come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

    "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"

  2. beat out, tap out, thump outverb

    beat out a rhythm

Wiktionary

  1. beat outverb

    To sound a rhythm on a percussion instrument such as a drum.

  2. beat outverb

    To extinguish

  3. beat outverb

    to win by a narrow margin.

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  1. beat out

    To beat out generally means to surpass, defeat or outperform someone or something, often in a competitive situation. It may involve winning against an opponent in a sport, game, contest or any form of competition. The term can also be used figuratively to refer to prioritising or choosing something over another. In another context, it can also mean to make or shape something by repeatedly hitting it, as in metalwork. The specific meaning usually depends on the context it's being used in.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of beat out in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of beat out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of beat out in a Sentence

  1. Kayla Gissendaner in her statement:

    I just want to tell my kids that I love them, and I am proud of them, and no matter what happens love does beat out hate.

  2. Liz Sanders:

    Our biggest trend over time has to do with purchasing factors, and we know that taste and price have always been the top two factors that have driven purchasing, with healthfulness following behind in the third spot, in terms of what is healthy, we know that it doesn't always beat out what tastes the best or what has the best price, in terms of impacting a food purchase.

  3. Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary:

    The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.

  4. Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary", ch. 12:

    ...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.

  5. Marc Siegel:

    The reason that the delta variant is winning out is because of how transmissible [it is], it’s not like some deadly version of this is going to compete and beat out the delta variant; the only thing that could take over from the delta variant is one that’s more contagious...I don’t see this changing enough so it suddenly reinfects everybody that's already had it, and eludes the vaccine.

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