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drives the same beat-up truck he had in high school
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The actor and martial arts master plays Caine, a blind assassin who uses advanced hearing to beat-up bad guys in creative and brutal ways, as well as - what else? - a cane.
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
One big obstacle was a beat-up roster that featured one linebacker, Fred Warner, who played most of the season with a broken bone in his ankle, and another, Dre Greenlaw, who came back from an Achilles rupture and was only able to play one game.
—Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
On Tuesday, December 31, the 60-year-old American Pickers host took to his Instagram to share a photo of himself smiling from ear to ear while sitting on a beat-up couch wearing jeans and a white t-shirt.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
One of the Eds had brought his own chair, but the rest made do with what was there—an old trolley bench covered with back issues of auto magazines, along with assorted beat-up chairs and stools.
—Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
One big obstacle was a beat-up roster that featured one linebacker, Fred Warner, who played most of the season with a broken bone in his ankle, and another, Dre Greenlaw, who came back from an Achilles rupture and was only able to play one game.
—Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
On Tuesday, December 31, the 60-year-old American Pickers host took to his Instagram to share a photo of himself smiling from ear to ear while sitting on a beat-up couch wearing jeans and a white t-shirt.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
One of the Eds had brought his own chair, but the rest made do with what was there—an old trolley bench covered with back issues of auto magazines, along with assorted beat-up chairs and stools.
—Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Beat-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beat-up. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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