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Spotted in the wild:
- “We’ve got to be a difficult team to scout or get a beat on this year because we’ve played a lot of different people,” Saldana said. (CNN Sports Illustrated)
- “I started to draw a beat on his serve early in the third set,'’ Agassi said. “And he was starting to feel a little bit of my presence on the return.'’ (link)
Analyzed or reported by:
- Mark Liberman at Language Log (And the bead goes on)
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