as in brook
a natural body of running water smaller than a river
when we were lads, we raced our toy boats in the narrow beck that bordered the lane
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Recent Examples of beck
Maurice is the prince of our household and has us at his beck and call.
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Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
But Optimus, who in the video seems more than happy to be at his mistress’s beck and call, appears less subservient in a series of pictures in which Kardashian, wearing spike heels and lingerie, poses beside him and a gold Tesla Cybercab.
—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
With Matangi and Tamatoa still at Nalo's beck and call, both primary antagonists appear ready to return to the screen, should Moana set sail again down the road.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
First of all, that's a long flight, and that was my first experience of a lay-flat seat, with the flight attendants at your beck and call.
—Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Nov. 2024
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Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
But Optimus, who in the video seems more than happy to be at his mistress’s beck and call, appears less subservient in a series of pictures in which Kardashian, wearing spike heels and lingerie, poses beside him and a gold Tesla Cybercab.
—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
With Matangi and Tamatoa still at Nalo's beck and call, both primary antagonists appear ready to return to the screen, should Moana set sail again down the road.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
First of all, that's a long flight, and that was my first experience of a lay-flat seat, with the flight attendants at your beck and call.
—Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beck
Noun
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The 1851-52 painting by John Everett Millais is one of the most popular renderings of Ophelia's death, which depicts her lying, almost peacefully, among flowers in a brook.—
Audrey Gibbs,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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The mass-participation ball game involves two teams, whose players are decided according to which side of the town's small brook they were born on.—
Alan Taylor,
The Atlantic,
7 Mar. 2025
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The Spa The Spa is a collection of treatment tents set along a creek that lends a soundtrack to your massage, facial, or body wrap.—
Maya Kachroo-Levine,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Apr. 2025
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Or Frank Lloyd Wright, with his long, often low-slung homes of concrete and red tidewater cypress, designed to harmonize with their surroundings (Fallingwater, one of his most famous works, is perched over a creek in a quiet glade outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).—
Nick Remsen,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Beck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beck. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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