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beats

  • plural of beat.
  • present tense form of beat (3rd person singular).

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Adobe also posted earnings and revenue beats for the fiscal second quarter.

From MarketWatch • Jul. 2, 2026

He wanted me to play that at 120 beats per minute too.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2026

Anderson's 3,300 touches last season comfortably beats Fernandez's 2,608 and Caicedo's 2,496, although the last five months were without Maresca.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2026

And while much of the movie induces sidesplitting guffaws, Tremaine said that producer and co-creator Spike Jonze was eager to highlight the sensitive beats shared between the cast.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026

Because numbers are used in music to identify everything from beats to intervals to harmonics to what fingering to use, this naming system is sometimes less confusing.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones