beat out

verb

beat out; beaten out or beat out; beating out; beats out

transitive verb

1

: to make or perform by or as if by beating

2

: to mark or accompany by beating

3

: to turn (a routine ground ball or a bunt) into a hit in baseball by fast running to first base

Examples of beat out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Her costar, Maximilian Schell, won the award for Best Actor (beating out Tracy, who was also nominated in the same category), and screenwriter Abby Mann won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay. —Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Feb. 2026

Mejia beat out a fractured field of more than 10 candidates, after three of the more mainstream liberals divided up the field. —Paul Kane, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2026

The 17-year-old South Korean is a mentee of Chloe Kim—and beat out Kim to win. —Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2026

The Claude gain, which took it into the top 10 free apps on the Apple App Store, beat out chatbot and artificial intelligence competitors OpenAI, Google Gemini and Meta. —Samantha Subin, CNBC, 13 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1588, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for beat out

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout