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or rivalling
as in competitive
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variants
or rivalling
as in competing
to engage in a contest
two longtime friends who have rivaled for the same things at every stage of their lives
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Recent Examples of rivaling
Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 8 Jan. 2026
For decades, Samsung, maker of consumer electronics like smartphones, televisions, computer monitors and refrigerators, relied on its vast internal design workforce to become a brand rivaling Apple in prestige.
—Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2026
Corporate bankruptcies surged in 2025, rivaling levels not seen since the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession, as import-dependent businesses absorbed the highest tariffs in decades.
—Aaron Gregg, Arkansas Online, 29 Dec. 2025
Chicago is rivaling Denver with its string of close-game wins, including a huge 24-15 victory over the Eagles last week.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 5 Dec. 2025
However, with the current political and economical uncertainties — something rivaling the Lehman shock of 2008 — and particularly with evermore increasing anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies, our work is more urgent than ever.
—Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025
But these approaches are far from infallible, with efforts to remove AI watermarks and destroy AI metadata arguably rivaling the very efforts to create them.
—Jerel Ezell, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
Tetsu Fujimura’s keynote talk The Future of Japanese Intellectual Property in Global Adaptations offered TIFFCOM attendees a convincing argument that Japanese IP is quickly becoming one of the country’s core industries, rivalling even its mighty car manufacturers.
—Mark Schilling, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
The computer boasts advanced computational capabilities, rivaling those of a full-fledged supercomputer, and reduces power consumption by 90 percent.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
On Wednesday, 3rd Judicial District Judge Thomas Whitney listened as both sides presented their rivaling requests for incarceration terms.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for rivaling
Adjective
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She was suspended for four years and stripped of all competitive results since that date.—
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Barkley and McCaffrey are incredibly competitive.—
Verb
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Students from various school programs like 4-H and Future Farmers of America will flood the Stock Show competing in meat and dairy cattle judging, among other events.—
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All the teams in that tournament were guaranteed $1 million just for competing.—
Adjective
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Robots—and the people who build them—have the opposite problem.—
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Today, however, the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction.—
Verb
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The Blackhawks didn’t retain any salary in the deal but the playoff-contending Sharks still cleared up close to $3 million in cap space to help accommodate any possible additions via trade later this season.—
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Wearing a sleek black turtleneck, the actress is on a break between industry Q&A panels for her Oscar-contending film, Song Sung Blue, running on what seems to be a campaign adrenaline rush.—
Adjective
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Even the opposing team got in on the action.—
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If Young ever offers a provocative pregame quote that provides a soundbite for the opposing locker room, a roomful of reporters will collapse in surprise on the spot.—
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“Rivaling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rivaling. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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