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world-beater

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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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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

At the age of 31, there might yet be time to rediscover the form that made him a world-beater.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2024

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

From Seattle Times • Apr. 16, 2022

But speed the clocks up just a little bit, and suddenly Nakamura is once again a world-beater, as he proved at the just-concluded St. Louis Rapid and Blitz Tournament.

From Washington Times • Aug. 17, 2021

But that's the way it is with world-beater inventions; they sweep you along.

From The Professional Approach by Schoenherr, John

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