beat back
phrasal verb
beat back; beaten back or beat back; beating back; beats back
: to force (someone) to go back or to retreat by fighting
Our troops were beaten back by enemy forces.
Police used batons to beat the protesters back.
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Our creative community has done its best to beat back the forces of blandness and turn this into a city that sees a blank space as an opportunity to add to the urban art gallery around us.
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Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 29 May 2025
Vector control officials have sought to beat back the scourge, galvanized by the unhappy residents and fear of spiking disease that’s starting to be realized.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2025
Send La Flame and this saloon-trap beat back to Astroworld.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2025
Cancer diagnosis Ruch had battled and beat back an earlier prostate cancer diagnosis years ago.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2025
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Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 29 May 2025
Vector control officials have sought to beat back the scourge, galvanized by the unhappy residents and fear of spiking disease that’s starting to be realized.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2025
Send La Flame and this saloon-trap beat back to Astroworld.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2025
Cancer diagnosis Ruch had battled and beat back an earlier prostate cancer diagnosis years ago.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2025
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“Beat back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beat%20back. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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