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as in pulses
a rhythmic expanding and contracting
he wears a pacemaker to help maintain a regular beating of his heart
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as in defeats
failure to win a contest
took a beating and ended up in second place
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Recent Examples of beatings
The morality police patrol streets and other public areas looking for violators, who face arrest, fines, beatings, or detention.
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Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 23 Jan. 2026
Salaam recalls violent confrontations — tear gas, beatings and even police motorcycles driven into crowds.
—Wakisha Bailey, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
In interviews with Fox News Digital, three former detainees described a system designed not just to punish dissent, but to break it through solitary confinement, beatings, medical neglect and threats of execution.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 17 Jan. 2026
But after a special prosecutor investigated beatings at the hands of Chicago police, the Illinois Appellate Court ordered a hearing on Wrice’s torture claim.
—Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
School desegregation, voting rights and public-accommodation battles – especially across the South – had led to shootings and beatings of African Americans by white counterprotesters and police.
—Josh Meyer, USA Today, 10 Jan. 2026
Chen oversaw 10 of these compounds, authorizing beatings and violence to keep the workers in line, the feds allege.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026
Among other things, the indictment accuses Maduro and his wife of ordering kidnappings, beatings and murders of those who owed them drug money or undermined their drug trafficking operation.
—Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
Human Rights Watch has recorded beatings, prolonged solitary confinement and denial of medical care for those jailed after the 2021 protests.
—Oscar Biscet, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 23 Jan. 2026
Salaam recalls violent confrontations — tear gas, beatings and even police motorcycles driven into crowds.
—Wakisha Bailey, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
In interviews with Fox News Digital, three former detainees described a system designed not just to punish dissent, but to break it through solitary confinement, beatings, medical neglect and threats of execution.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 17 Jan. 2026
But after a special prosecutor investigated beatings at the hands of Chicago police, the Illinois Appellate Court ordered a hearing on Wrice’s torture claim.
—Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
School desegregation, voting rights and public-accommodation battles – especially across the South – had led to shootings and beatings of African Americans by white counterprotesters and police.
—Josh Meyer, USA Today, 10 Jan. 2026
Chen oversaw 10 of these compounds, authorizing beatings and violence to keep the workers in line, the feds allege.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026
Among other things, the indictment accuses Maduro and his wife of ordering kidnappings, beatings and murders of those who owed them drug money or undermined their drug trafficking operation.
—Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
Human Rights Watch has recorded beatings, prolonged solitary confinement and denial of medical care for those jailed after the 2021 protests.
—Oscar Biscet, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beatings
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Instead of sending information as electrical signals through copper wire, fiber uses strands of ultra-pure glass—each one thinner than a human hair—to carry data as pulses of light.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
27 Jan. 2026
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Unlike traditional copper phone lines that transmit information as electrical signals, fiber-optic cables are tiny bendable strands of glass through which data is sent as photons — lasers emitting pulses of light — at far higher speed, using less energy.—
Katie Tarasov,
CNBC,
27 Jan. 2026
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Their six defeats were no-doubters, and none came in back-to-back fashion.—
Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
23 Jan. 2026
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The loss was Milwaukee’s fourth in the last five games, with three of those defeats coming by double-figures.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
22 Jan. 2026
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At one point in the season, Pitt was 7-2 and won their first five games with true freshman Mason Heintschel at quarterback, who took over for Eli Holstein after back-to-back losses early in the year against West Virginia and Louisville.—
Mike Darnay,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Bitcoin prices dropped over the weekend, declining to their lowest point of the year as multiple bearish factors combined to drive losses.—
Charles Lloyd Bovaird II,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Their set covered the whole history of Sega, including music from games from the peak of the arcade era, like Virtua Fighter and Daytona USA, more modern sounds like music from Phantasy Star, and heavy beats from the Yakuza series.—
Billboard Japan,
Billboard,
30 Jan. 2026
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With all that action there are bound to be bad beats, fluke calls, and terrible bounces that cost legal bettors billions.—
Emil Steiner,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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After back-to-back campaigns filled with setbacks, Scott re-signed with the Panthers on a 1-year deal this offseason.—
Mike Kaye
January 8,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Jan. 2026
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Backups Jaylon Moore and Wanya Morris suffered setbacks in subsequent weeks, pushing the Chiefs down to their last options at tackle on the depth chart.—
Jesse Newell,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Beatings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beatings. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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