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have beaten

  • present perfect of beat.

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That’s because small-cap relative strength trends tend to persist, and U.S. small-cap stocks have beaten the largest caps for over a year.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

So now that the South Americans have beaten the 10th-ranked team in the world, does that make the U.S. better than Germany?

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Bessembinder also considered this question: If you bought and held only a subset of the stocks in the S&P 500, would you have beaten the index?

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

For instance, Argentina have six points and cannot be overtaken in Group J because they have beaten the two teams on three points, Austria and Algeria.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

“I believed my family was waiting for me. When this was over, they would be there, outside the camp, to greet me. And I would have beaten Hitler at his game.”

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren