variants
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 Synonyms for rivaling
Adjective
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Wild turkeys have a wildly competitive social system, with combat and other dominance displays laying the groundwork for pecking order.—
Alice Jones Webb,
Outdoor Life,
21 Mar. 2025 -
Two weeks to design a team from scratch that could win in the brutally competitive Big Ten Conference and return Maryland to the NCAA Tournament.—
Childs Walker,
Baltimore Sun,
20 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Field size will expand a touch with over 20 creators competing in the events that will be enhanced by live ShotLink powered by CDW scoring/data, Trackman shot tracing and the same onscreen graphics pro game watchers have come to expect.—
Mike Dojc,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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Carey Hart, who has been competing in motocross for years, embraced the opportunity to push himself physically after having to take a step back recently.—
Elizabeth Stanton,
Fox News,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The critique of contract workers created the ideas of natural and unnatural immigration, so that contract workers, or unnatural immigrants, could be vilified and their exclusion justified through contrast with the opposite category, free and natural immigrants.—
Made by History,
Time,
26 Mar. 2025
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The two franchises have been on opposite paths since the trade.—
Adam Lichtenstein,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Rivaling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rivaling. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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