beats

[beats]

A United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)

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Noun
a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)


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Usage Examples

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

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Other Usage Examples

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

Biology always beats will power.

Nothing beats a great smile.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

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