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world-beater

British  

noun

  1. a person or thing that surpasses all others in its category; champion

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Sinner went from world-beater to looking like a guy roaming around the Tuileries garden in his pajamas.

From The Wall Street Journal May 30, 2026

Yamal is the star of this crop, a world-beater at 17.

From BBC May 6, 2025

The founder of global McDonald’s, Ray Kroc, first became the brothers’ franchise agent and then bought them out, supersizing the brand into a world-beater burger-eaters’ fave.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 5, 2022

Mayfield may not be the world-beater the Browns hoped he would be when they drafted him first overall in 2018.

From Seattle Times Mar. 19, 2022

On its record alone the Paymaster was a world-beater, but the ground had barely been scratched.

From Shadow Mountain by Coolidge, Dane

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