beat back
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Ranchers and vets say this $4 treatment for cattle will help them beat back flesh-eating screwworm.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 12, 2026
Themes may emerge: how you beat back adversity, sacrificed for others or discovered new ways to love.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
Norwegian family drama, Sentimental Value, beat back stiff competition in the best film not in the English language category, including Brazilian thriller The Secret Agent.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026
In other words, it’s riveting prose about how humans beat back despair.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
The creatures of the Stone circled a while croaking, and one by one beat back ponderously inland over the moors.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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