- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beat Quotes
On rhythm, rivalry and getting knocked down.
The word does real work across this set, covering everything from beating oneself up over old regrets to childhood scuffles remembered with surprising fondness decades later. A baseball quote recalls learning early on how to lay down a bunt and reach base ahead of the throw, before adopting a different hitting style entirely.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to get beat in anything!
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.
- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's almost sickening now that the regulators 'on the beat' while the biggest credit collapse in modern financial history unfolded are now patting themselves on the back for their 'brave' stance on short-selling!
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt like I couldn't wallow in self-pity forever. I can't beat myself up forever.
- Exploited
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- Nov 07, 2020
A large and growing body of academic research suggests there are market anomalies that can be exploited to beat a strict index approach. Some of that research has been recognized with Nobels in economic science - William F. Sharpe in 1990 and Eugene F. Fama in 2013.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.
- Nov 07, 2020
Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 'Sid & Nancy,' it was originally this atonal kind of beat that you hear in the verses, like an atonal dance track.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020