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  • n  a competitor who holds a preeminent position

  • Pace-Setter Chris Chataway, the man who used to make a business of helping other runners hang up records, hung up a world-beater for himself.
  • After hearing himself announced as new welterweight champ, Sugar Ray stood in his corner, dog-tired and happy, but not quite the world-beater he was cracked up to be.
  • A world-beater album sung by a woman whose voice, with its leathery delicacy, can handle tunes of hard traveling and wrong-turn loving with equal finesse.
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  • Mark Recchi in Regina Leader-Post
    He can come in and just be a player, which I think is the most important thing for a young teammate,Recchi said. "There is not pressure for this kid to come in, internally, he doesn't have to come in and be a world-beater. There's a lot of...
  • Colin Montgomerie in USA Today
    We need the likes of a Seve or a Langer or a new Faldo or Lyle to come through, a real world-beater,Montgomerie said at the start of the week, referring to Europe's "Big Four" - Seve Ballesteros, Bernhard Langer, Nick Faldo and Sandy Lyle -...

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