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as in to throb
to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner the patient's heart beats roughly 60 times per minute

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beat

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noun

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a rhythmic expanding and contracting a single beat of the heart is said to be all that separates the vice president from the presidency

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as in rhythm
the recurrent pattern formed by a series of sounds having a regular rise and fall in intensity moved to the beat of the music

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beat

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adjective (1)

beaten

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verb (2)

variants or beat
past participle of beat
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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 beat
Verb
Mater Dei rallied to beat Peninsula 20-25, 25-17, 25-13, 25-19 in Division 2. Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025 Winter Park beat Miami Southwest to win the FHSAA Class 3A boys volleyball state championship and become the first program in the sport to win three titles in a span of four seasons. Bill Kemp, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 May 2025
Noun
The physicality bleeds through in more than just the beats. Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2025 Cisco is up in after-hours trading on the back of a quarterly beat and strong guidance. Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 15 May 2025
Adjective
Designed for businesses, these technologies include tools for stem separation, chord recognition, key and beat detection, lyrics transcription, and generative capabilities like singing voice modeling and assistive music creation. Jason Phillips, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025 The gang members allegedly forced their way into a couple’s apartment at the Edge at Lowry Apartments in the Denver suburbs and bound, beat, stabbed and kidnapped the victims, leaving them hospitalized. Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 14 Jan. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beat
Noun
  • In the rear of an IndyCar vehicle is a safety device called an attenuator, designed to cushion the blow from a rear impact into the wall.
    Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • The lawyers claim the measure signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis this month has already dealt significant blows to campaigns to expand Medicaid and legalize recreational marijuana in the state.
    Kate Payne, Sun Sentinel, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Some healthcare providers even use grip strength as a vital sign, along with blood pressure, body temperature, pulse, and breathing rate, to monitor overall health.
    Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 14 May 2025
  • Venturing into the underground sanctuary of The Warehouse, where Frankie Knuckles spun revolutionary sounds, Vince teamed up with Jesse Saunders to form Z Factor, a scrappy collective of visionaries who captured the pulse of Chicago’s underground on wax.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Some researchers have suspected for a while that these rhythms can synchronize with the rhythm of music.
    Eva Amsen, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • To listen to him talk is to hear the rhythms of any Sunday morning in a Chicago parish church.
    Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • Related Articles But an explosive seven minutes clinched the Panthers’ victory, sending Florida to its third straight Eastern Conference final with a 6-1 win over the Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on Sunday.
    Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 19 May 2025
  • Picking up that camera turned out to be a fateful move and the results of that documentation — all 145 minutes of it, shaped from 800 hours of footage — will be unveiled at Cannes with LaBeouf taking a seat in Buñuel Theatre.
    Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • Literal flames surrounded the glow, both repelling and drawing you in more, followed by two loud, disorienting thumps.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 16 May 2025
  • Their bodies sway to the rhythmic thumps of the hypnotic music, composed by the French artist Kangding Ray.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025
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  • Two days after the beating, Ventura had to walk the red carpet for the premiere of her movie, The Perfect Match.
    Danielle Bacher, People.com, 20 May 2025
  • Richard said that the beatings continued in the car on the way home after the dinner.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 19 May 2025
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  • And newer skills have been added, such as security by design to engineering roles, zero-trust architecture to architecture roles and new collaboration tools, cadence, rituals and ceremonies have been introduced across the organization.
    Balmukund Shukla, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • That’s because a transcript doesn’t capture the cadence, inflection and mood of the answers.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Vance is the first millennial to stand a heartbeat from the presidency.
    Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 18 May 2025
  • Lisa Schein, 43, placed a stethoscope on Mireya Moody’s chest and listened carefully to the heartbeat that once belonged to her own daughter, Maddy.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 17 May 2025

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