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
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
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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
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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Balmukund Shukla,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
That’s because a transcript doesn’t capture the cadence, inflection and mood of the answers.
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