beefed

past tense of beef

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of beefed On the sixth day of France’s heat wave, when temperatures reached record highs, shoppers scrapped over box fans, and Americans and Europeans beefed on X, a neighbor in our apartment building near Paris finally broke down and texted me. Jessica Roy, Curbed, 29 June 2026 Trump has beefed with some over tariffs. ABC News, 15 June 2026 One could be forgiven to pooh-pooh yet another play that lays out William Shakespeare’s bona fides as a hip-hop icon, the original bar spitter who beefed with plenty of his contemporaries while dropping sick flows all over Elizabethan England. David John Chávez, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beefed
Verb
  • Over a quarter of students in high-income countries complained their classmates got distracted by digital devices in most or every science class.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
  • When Microsoft moved Office users from traditional menus toward the ribbon interface in 2007, many longtime users initially complained because familiar commands appeared to have disappeared.
    Mark Vena, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Interviewees describe hacking little girls’ phones to see when their fathers came home and then bombing their houses, listening while the people on the line screamed and pleaded for help, while mothers cried over their burning daughters.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The crocodile, a female named Lalay, bit down on his arm and dragged him through the shallow water as onlookers screamed.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Post-Covid, Hollywood has whined about the falloff for MPA fare in Pan Asian territories, particularly the once-robust South Korea.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 28 July 2026
  • After a few casts, Rubye’s rod bent, and the reel whined as line spooled out.
    John Todd, Outdoor Life, 9 July 2026

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“Beefed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beefed. Accessed 12 Sep. 2026.

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