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verb

variants or beat
past participle of beat
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as in pulsed
to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner the patient's heart beats roughly 60 times per minute

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of beaten
Adjective
Score the puff pastry lightly in a diagonal pattern with a sharp knife or box cutter, then brush it with the beaten egg. The Editors, Field & Stream, 6 Mar. 2024 Dredge the egg whites: Take each egg white half and dredge it in flour, gently shaking off the excess before dipping it in the beaten egg. Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2023
Verb
That storm, still the one to beat, towered more than a mile into the sky, stretched across nearly 100 miles of the desert at times and deposited 40,000 tons of dust across Phoenix. Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 2 Sep. 2025 The final frame of Jordan’s career has been sold as his NBA Finals-winning jumper to beat the Utah Jazz in 1998. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for beaten
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beaten
Adjective
  • Gaga ended the performance like an exhausted wind-up doll, caged again physically, but never spiritually.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The apparently recent footage showed two hostages -- Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Alon Ohel -- looking gaunt and exhausted while being driven around Gaza City.
    WAFAA SHURAFA, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While cruise line operators are enjoying a surge in popularity after the pandemic badly battered the industry—and Carnival itself reported an all-time high of $25 billion in annual revenue in 2024—investments in AI and other technologies could make travel by ship even more desirable.
    John Kell, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The Long Walk takes place in an alternate America in what looks like the ’60s or ’70s, one that’s been battered and economically devastated by an internal conflict.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • According to the Associated Press, the death toll in Gaza has surpassed 64,000.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Charlotte posted five different drives of eight plays or more, three of which surpassed 60 yards on the drive.
    Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 7 Sep. 2025
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  • The British supermodel brought her A-game to the fall campaign shoot, throwing her hands up in the air and letting her hair fly as the club lights pulsed and strobes flickered around her.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Over the past 12 days, Swift's official website has pulsed with a series of sparkly countdowns — orange, purple and blue — each one sending Swifties scrambling to decode what’s next for her upcoming 12th studio album.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In the Lower West Side of Chicago, music blared and green, white and red flags fluttered down the streets of the predominantly Latino Pilsen neighborhood on Saturday as crowds gathered for the start of Mexican Independence Day celebrations.
    Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Their tops and Tate’s hair fluttered in the breeze of a wind machine absurdly cranked up to Stage 4 hurricane levels.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The comment sections of each video documenting the saga was flooded with people baffled by how the pair ended up in the situation.
    Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Willis, a seven-time Pro Bowl linebacker who starred for the San Francisco 49ers, was baffled by Jerry Jones sending Parsons to Green Bay.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Non-linear conversational branching is just one more feature to remind you that an AI chatbot's simulated perspective is mutable, changeable, and highly guided by your own inputs in addition to the training data that forged its underlying neural network.
    Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Meeting Byrne at his office was like getting a glimpse inside the psyche of an artist who has forged a sui generis career exploring music and storytelling in many different styles and forms, Aswad says.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Finally, the object had an unusual shape that puzzled astronomers.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This mystery puzzled scientists because ice was not supposed to behave like that.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Beaten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beaten. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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