beat back
phrasal verb
beat back; beaten back or beat back; beating back; beats back
: to force (someone) to go back or to retreat by fighting
Our troops were beaten back by enemy forces.
Police used batons to beat the protesters back.
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Cancer diagnosis Ruch had battled and beat back an earlier prostate cancer diagnosis years ago.
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Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2025
In recent weeks, recession has become a more popular default setting in the market, for the first time since the Fed began aggressively raising interest rates to beat back runaway inflation in March 2022.
—Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 25 Mar. 2025
President Trump has spent the first major overseas trip of his second administration — next stop Wednesday in Qatar — beating back allegations that he was personally profiting from foreign leaders by accepting a $400-million luxury airliner from the gulf state’s royal family.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
An international coalition beat back the Islamic State, dislodging its hold over its caliphate in 2019 and forcing it to lose its grip on its territory.
—Raghed Waked & Justin Salhani, The Dial, 25 Mar. 2025
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Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2025
In recent weeks, recession has become a more popular default setting in the market, for the first time since the Fed began aggressively raising interest rates to beat back runaway inflation in March 2022.
—Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 25 Mar. 2025
President Trump has spent the first major overseas trip of his second administration — next stop Wednesday in Qatar — beating back allegations that he was personally profiting from foreign leaders by accepting a $400-million luxury airliner from the gulf state’s royal family.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
An international coalition beat back the Islamic State, dislodging its hold over its caliphate in 2019 and forcing it to lose its grip on its territory.
—Raghed Waked & Justin Salhani, The Dial, 25 Mar. 2025
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“Beat back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beat%20back. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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