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New data on China’s relentless energy installations underscore warnings from Elon Musk and Jensen Huang that the nation’s world-beating power network will deliver a major advantage over the US in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.
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Alfred Cang, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026
Viewers still love television (in all its ever-increasing forms) and the UK industry is still world-beating.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2026
While not downright horrible, that audience-exit polling indicates a certain polarization — specifically around the film’s sentimental ending and Marty’s world-beating, all-encompassing self-absorption.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 29 Dec. 2025
There is one notable absence from the Kospi’s world-beating rally: local retail investors.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
In the early twentieth century, Germany boasted a world-beating industrial base and top engineering talent but ultimately failed to establish enduring regional hegemony.
—Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
Yet despite this dominance, the emergence of world-beating IP from South Korea and China, including games, animations, movies and streaming shows, has seemingly threatened the longtime supremacy of regional pop culture powerhouse Japan.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
Copenhagen will surprise you with everything from skiing in the city to an Instagram worthy tropical pool alongside world-beating cuisine.
—Michele Robson, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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Alfred Cang, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026
Viewers still love television (in all its ever-increasing forms) and the UK industry is still world-beating.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2026
While not downright horrible, that audience-exit polling indicates a certain polarization — specifically around the film’s sentimental ending and Marty’s world-beating, all-encompassing self-absorption.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 29 Dec. 2025
There is one notable absence from the Kospi’s world-beating rally: local retail investors.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
In the early twentieth century, Germany boasted a world-beating industrial base and top engineering talent but ultimately failed to establish enduring regional hegemony.
—Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
Yet despite this dominance, the emergence of world-beating IP from South Korea and China, including games, animations, movies and streaming shows, has seemingly threatened the longtime supremacy of regional pop culture powerhouse Japan.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
Copenhagen will surprise you with everything from skiing in the city to an Instagram worthy tropical pool alongside world-beating cuisine.
—Michele Robson, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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“World-beating.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/world-beating. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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