he wears a pacemaker to help maintain a regular beating of his heart
took a beating and ended up in second place
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In a 31-14 beating of Dallas two weeks ago, Williams was not sacked for the first time in his career.—Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025 You weren’t allowed to paint your culture, you weren’t allowed to dance, you weren’t allowed to cook your food, do your drum beating, any of that.—Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 8 Oct. 2025 Much of modern investing discourse is chest-beating.—Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025 As the minutes tick by, and the beating continues, Brooks becomes increasingly bloodied and unresponsive.—Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for beating
Word History
Etymology
Middle English betynge, from gerund of beten "to beat entry 1"
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