world-beater
Britishnoun
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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
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
You looked like a world-beater, in there against Fanchette.
From Winner Take All by Evans, Larry
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