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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

Bruce Wayne had Alfred Pennyworth; Yamamoto has Yada Sensei, personal trainer Osamu Yada, a 60-something Japanese judo therapist whose unique training regimen has helped turn his star pupil into a world-beater.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

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

From BBC • May 6, 2025

No, Morris hasn’t been a world-beater in his time at Washington.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 16, 2022

Then when this product is transplanted to a more sunshiny soil we sometimes get a world-beater.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen by Hubbard, Elbert

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