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as in winner
one that defeats an enemy or opponent
no one likes to see the beater of our team in the play-offs
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Recent Examples of beater
Following her trade from the Sparks, Rickea Jackson will be teammates with Chicago Sky center Kamilla Cardoso, whose game-winning buzzer beater for the Gamecocks took down the former’s Tennessee team at the 2024 Southeastern Conference tournament.
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Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
The daily beaters, available in small or mini size, come in yellow, white, and rose gold, with diamonds on the bezel of the latter two.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2026
Williams can live on option routes, pivots and zone-beaters.
—Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
May came to the Wolverines after running the program at Florida Atlantic University, taking that program to the Final Four in 2023 and coming up one buzzer-beater shy of playing for a national title.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
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Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
The daily beaters, available in small or mini size, come in yellow, white, and rose gold, with diamonds on the bezel of the latter two.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2026
Williams can live on option routes, pivots and zone-beaters.
—Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
May came to the Wolverines after running the program at Florida Atlantic University, taking that program to the Final Four in 2023 and coming up one buzzer-beater shy of playing for a national title.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beater
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There’s a parallel universe where possibly one of the greatest songs of all time, and definitely the best song ever written about the boys being back in town, was squandered off into the abyss of record-store crates and never given a chance to shine.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
24 Apr. 2026
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Pictures of the stand filed in court by the city show a hodgepodge of food ingredients, spices, cooking oils, pots, crates, and propane tanks powering a campfire stove.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
22 Apr. 2026
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McDavid had led a 3-on-1 rush that fizzled out and soon after received Bouchard’s outlet pass, returning the puck to him and earning a secondary assist for the Art Ross Trophy winner’s first point of these playoffs.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
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That is the nature of Talladega, which has seen 11 different winners in the last 11 races there.—
Jordan Bianchi,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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On the first pitch, Casey, who weighs almost twice as much as me, took the biggest whipper (a giant climbing fall) of his life.—
The Editors,
Outside,
13 Feb. 2026
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In the same jungle, centuries earlier, a group of Spanish conquerors falls to that same ruthless force.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2026
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Babur’s family traced its lineage to both the Turkic conqueror Timur (Tamerlane) on his father’s side and Chagatai, the second son of the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan, on his mother’s side.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Beater.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beater. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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