OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 58999

beat to

Meanings (ES + gloss)
adelantar • adelantarse • anticiparse • atrasar • ganar la delantera
To arrive (somewhere) more quickly (than someone else); to succeed (at something) more quickly (than someone else).
I wanted to gather up all the pinecones, but you beat me to it!
Zumbetel wanted to beat Yalpatel to launching the planet's first pocket-sized satellite phone.
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