Definition of beaternext
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as in crate
a dilapidated old automobile he drives a beater that just barely runs

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Recent Examples of beater That means no tasting cookie dough made with raw eggs, no licking brownie batter off the beaters, and no homemade Caesar dressing made with uncooked yolks. Angela Haupt, Time, 23 July 2026 Turn off the beater bar on your vacuum and turn the suction down to low. Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 July 2026 Most of them are not, in their day-to-day lives, world beaters. Jack Lang, New York Times, 1 July 2026 There are panel beaters, scrap metal sellers, upholsterers. Kate Bartlett, NPR, 25 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for beater
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Noun
  • But some of the big cats required sedation, including two tigers that veterinarians hoisted in canvas slings Friday and carried by hand to their transport crates.
    ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The Street Glide 3 is just not designed for that kinda crazy – which in no way should stop you from putting a 131-cubic-inch crate engine into it.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 14 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • In the final, which pitted corgis against each other over 25 meters (82 feet), the winner was American competitor GG, short for Gustave the Girl Dog.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Sangare was one of the core players of the Lens side who pushed Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain hard for the French title last season, eventually coming up six points short.
    Cerys Jones, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • The plot of the original YouTube series began to follow the Skibidi Toilets, a conqueror race armed with futuristic weaponry and an intention to colonize the galaxy.
    Kyle MacNeill, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2026
  • One stronghold after another has fallen to the ruthless conqueror Nobunaga Oda—often celebrated as the first great unifier of Japan but here cast as a largely offscreen mega-villain.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 July 2026

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“Beater.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beater. Accessed 20 Aug. 2026.

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