world beat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of world beat
First recorded in 1985–90
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Argentina, ranked fifth in the world, beat the British and Irish Lions in Dublin on Friday night and have defeated South Africa, New Zealand, France and Australia, over the past 12 months.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
“I lovingly create them, accept their flaws, and set them loose in the narrative landscape and let the world beat them up a little as they inch themselves closer to self-realization.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2018
Brazil's Guilherme Toldo, ranked just 66th in the world, beat No. 2 Yoki Ota of Japan 15-13 to advance to the round of 16.
From US News ● Aug. 7, 2016
His most surprising victory over Federer was his first, coming in the 2004 Olympics when the then unseeded 18-year-old Berdych, ranked 74th in the world, beat the World No1 Swiss in the second round.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2015
But within these forms of the older world beat for the first time the spirit which was to characterize the new.
From History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by John Richard Green
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