How to Use beat it in a Sentence

beat it

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  • Then, a general frontier model with no special training matched or beat it on finance tasks.
    Harshil Shah, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • To beat it, Brand New Day will need to overperform to the tune of $100 million.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 30 July 2026
  • Another Gulf Coast gateway could beat it to the punch depending on the speed of development.
    Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Those who are the targets of terrorism—and who are prepared to defend themselves by doing whatever is necessary in order to beat it—start with a major advantage.
    Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The name change likely stemmed (in part, at least) from the fact that Amazon Prime Video series Harlan Coben’s Lazarus beat it to market.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2026

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