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Common collocations with beat in British Collocation

beat verb

UK /biːt/

easily

comfortably
comprehensively
convincingly
decisively
easily
hands down
soundly

Saudi Arabia was comprehensively beaten 4–0 by Ukraine.

It beats any standard USB webcam hands down.

by a small margin

just
narrowly

The total for last year was 195, just beating the previous record of 192.