to rob by the use of trickery or threats
the screenwriter has filed a lawsuit, accusing the production company of beating him out of his share of the film's net profits
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
the screenwriter has filed a lawsuit, accusing the production company of beating him out of his share of the film's net profits
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Verb
Without Adams and Sliwa dropping out, Cuomo has little shot to beat Mamdani.—Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 14 July 2025 Nothing beats a flattering linen dress for the summer.—Isis Briones, Travel + Leisure, 5 July 2025
Noun
Isiah Kiner-Falefa’s double to right rolled all the way to the warning track, and the throw beat Spencer Horwitz at the plate, but Twins catcher Christian Vasquez could not field the ball cleanly.—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 12 July 2025 For Rihanna’s 3rd Annual Diamond Ball in 2017, Lil’ Kim continued the matte beauty beat trend, pairing it with finger wave-like curls, seconded by her 2019 BET Awards look.—India Espy-Jones, Essence, 11 July 2025
Adjective
Rivera climbed into Feliz’s car; threatened, beat, and tased him, and then shot him in the chest point blank.—Lourdes Rosado, New York Daily News, 30 Apr. 2025 While anyone can enjoy listening to albums or 45s on the go, KORG also includes a wide range of features aimed at DJs, including playback speed adjustment, a beat looper (which gives the ability to layer scratches over a beat loop), filters, a fader and delay effects.—Brad Moon, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
Remove and discard plastic wrap from rolls, and gently brush tops of rolls with some of the beaten egg.—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023 Chee mashes the kernels with beaten egg, salt and a flourish of sugar that brings the flavor into focus but leaves no trace of sweetness.—Ligaya Mishan Esther Choi, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
Verb
The man had been severely beaten with a baseball bat and was suffering from injuries to his face and arm, federal authorities said.—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2025 If Liverpool beat Newcastle United at Wembley on Sunday, the Carabao Cup will be Slot’s first trophy since replacing Jurgen Klopp nine months ago.—Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for beat
The song fuses the best of two worlds, including Reik’s unmistakable Latin pop ballad with R&B touches and the folk and urban rhythms that distinguish the Mexican-American singer-songwriter.
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Luisa Calle,
Billboard,
18 July 2025
Clearly, the league will want to get into a rhythm where all the deals start and end at basically the same time, so what comes out of what ESPN carried seems to favor a short-term deal.
Riley Greene and Spencer Torkelson give this team just enough thump to be dangerous.
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Tony Blengino,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
The team pulled off a shocking blockbuster by landing franchise slugger Rafael Devers from the Boston Red Sox, immediately filling its need for some left-handed thump in the batting order.
Yet no lawyer had previously brought up the rapes and beatings that Bell witnessed during his stay at Dozier, Brown and Martin said.
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The Marshall Project,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 July 2025
In Chicago, the closest parallel to the racial attacks in 1980s New York was the 1997 Bridgeport attack on Lenard Clark, a Black 13-year-old, by a group of teenagers including Frank Caruso Jr., who was convicted of the beating but ultimately forced to serve only two years of an eight-year sentence.
The tweets, a vile departure from Elmo’s often inspiring and motivational social media cadence, were sent on July 13 and promptly taken down.
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Zack Sharf,
Variety,
14 July 2025
For organizations at the formative stages of their cyber resilience journeys, meeting once a month and then gradually reducing the cadence as the function matures can be effective.
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