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Noun (2)
when we were lads, we raced our toy boats in the narrow beck that bordered the lane
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Noun
First of all, that's a long flight, and that was my first experience of a lay-flat seat, with the flight attendants at your beck and call.
—Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Nov. 2024
Meanwhile, Sylvie texts a suitor under the table, for Sylvie is an icon who has handsome men in every European city at her beck and call.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2024
But Google and Everyday Robots stressed at the time that a roving butler at one’s beck and call remained far from consumer availability.
—Paresh Dave, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2023
Besides working the land, cooking for themselves and their overseers, and being at Jenkins' beck and call, historic preservationist Karen Nance explains that the enslaved people also built the Jenkins home, brick by brick.
—Doc Louallen, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2024
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“Beck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beck. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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