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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Hernandez and Baffert teamed for two more wins Sunday as the rider beat back a challenge by Antonio Fresu in the jockey race.
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Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Creating relations with the new government in Lebanon, now that Hezbollah has been beaten back, creating a new maybe normalization with Syria now that Assad's not there.
—Meredith Wolf Schizer, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Swoboda, an election lawyer endorsed by President Donald Trump, beat back an attempt to replace her by former state Rep. Cory McGarr by a vote of 978 to 758.
—Ray Stern, AZCentral.com, 30 July 2025
This latest update comes after Teddi shared in June on Two Ts in a Pod that her immunotherapy treatments had been so successful in beating back the growth of her tumors and that there were no plans to cease them.
—EW.com, 25 July 2025
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Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Creating relations with the new government in Lebanon, now that Hezbollah has been beaten back, creating a new maybe normalization with Syria now that Assad's not there.
—Meredith Wolf Schizer, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Swoboda, an election lawyer endorsed by President Donald Trump, beat back an attempt to replace her by former state Rep. Cory McGarr by a vote of 978 to 758.
—Ray Stern, AZCentral.com, 30 July 2025
This latest update comes after Teddi shared in June on Two Ts in a Pod that her immunotherapy treatments had been so successful in beating back the growth of her tumors and that there were no plans to cease them.
—EW.com, 25 July 2025
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“Beat back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beat%20back. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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