he wears a pacemaker to help maintain a regular beating of his heart
took a beating and ended up in second place
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Those days are long gone, and that approach is now a recipe for a beating in modern MMA, as Gracie discovered on Saturday.—Brian Mazique, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024 The other three officers were convicted in early October of witness tampering related to the cover-up of the beating.—Adrian Sainz, Jonathan Mattise, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2024 Villeneuve’s adaptation smartly shifts our allegiance to Zendaya’s Chani, who gets elevated from a side character to the film’s beating, conflicted heart.—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024 Justices on Thursday unanimously rejected the argument by Richard Barry Randolph, who was sentenced to death in the fatal beating and stabbing of Minnie Ruth McCollum, a manager of a Handy-Way store in Palatka.—News Service Of Florida, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for beating
Word History
Etymology
Middle English betynge, from gerund of beten "to beat entry 1"
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