beat back
phrasal verb
beat back; beaten back or beat back; beating back; beats back
: to force (someone) to go back or to retreat by fighting
Our troops were beaten back by enemy forces.
Police used batons to beat the protesters back.
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The choir leaned over him offering words of motivation, and rain doused the flames as Kirk Franklin marched up to a stage beating back smoke with an orange glow, like sunlight dissolving cloud cover.
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
Fajans-Turner, however, said a policy of this nature would be difficult to write into law and would likely face legal challenges even in the most progressive states, where natural gas bans on new construction have been beaten back by industry groups.
—Joseph Winters, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2025
Attempts to beat back the bad sides of such AI are ongoing and generally so far of limited success; see my analysis at the link here.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
Senate Republicans beat back all of the Democratic amendments, and a bipartisan majority defeated Paul’s amendment.
—Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 14 Mar. 2025
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
Fajans-Turner, however, said a policy of this nature would be difficult to write into law and would likely face legal challenges even in the most progressive states, where natural gas bans on new construction have been beaten back by industry groups.
—Joseph Winters, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2025
Attempts to beat back the bad sides of such AI are ongoing and generally so far of limited success; see my analysis at the link here.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
Senate Republicans beat back all of the Democratic amendments, and a bipartisan majority defeated Paul’s amendment.
—Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 14 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for beat back
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“Beat back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beat%20back. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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