Examples of world-beating in a Sentence
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There aren’t many players who can miss an open goal and then score a world-beating winner in the same game.
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The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
New data on China’s relentless energy installations underscore warnings from Elon Musk and Jensen Huang that the nation’s world-beating power network will deliver a major advantage over the US in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.
—Alfred Cang, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026
Viewers still love television (in all its ever-increasing forms) and the UK industry is still world-beating.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2026
While not downright horrible, that audience-exit polling indicates a certain polarization — specifically around the film’s sentimental ending and Marty’s world-beating, all-encompassing self-absorption.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 29 Dec. 2025
There is one notable absence from the Kospi’s world-beating rally: local retail investors.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
In the early twentieth century, Germany boasted a world-beating industrial base and top engineering talent but ultimately failed to establish enduring regional hegemony.
—Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
Gordon Murray served as designer of the McLaren F1, which set new standards for performance with a world-beating top-speed run of 240.1 mph in 1998.
—Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2025
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The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
New data on China’s relentless energy installations underscore warnings from Elon Musk and Jensen Huang that the nation’s world-beating power network will deliver a major advantage over the US in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.
—Alfred Cang, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026
Viewers still love television (in all its ever-increasing forms) and the UK industry is still world-beating.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2026
While not downright horrible, that audience-exit polling indicates a certain polarization — specifically around the film’s sentimental ending and Marty’s world-beating, all-encompassing self-absorption.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 29 Dec. 2025
There is one notable absence from the Kospi’s world-beating rally: local retail investors.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
In the early twentieth century, Germany boasted a world-beating industrial base and top engineering talent but ultimately failed to establish enduring regional hegemony.
—Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
Gordon Murray served as designer of the McLaren F1, which set new standards for performance with a world-beating top-speed run of 240.1 mph in 1998.
—Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2025
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“World-beating.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/world-beating. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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