Beat
Both words in one sentence
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Red has just shown up, and Yellow and his Pika, who have been searching for him, frantically beat at the strange, one-way mirror wall hoping to get his attention.
Source: Separated by the Wall - At the beginning of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: "The captain's acting a bit strange [beat] er."
Source: Weirder Than Usual -
A GEICO commercial has Maxwell the pig listening to a rave on his smartphone and singing to the beat as "boots and pants and boots and pants...", getting strange looks from the people around him.
Source: Mondegreen
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Strange and Beat. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/beat/strange
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Strange or Beat. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/beat/strange.
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