contend
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“I am looking down at you, at you and yours,” he writes in “What One Must Contend With,” “Your stories and friends, your banal ludicrous dreams.”
From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2021
If there were such a vote at the dawn of the season, he would have been a shoo-in for Least Likely to Contend for the Cup this week.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2011
Penguins Can Still Contend Without Malkin Sergei Federov played some of his most inspired and most productive hockey as a member of the Detroit Red Wings when Steve Yzerman was sidelined with an injury.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2011
Shall pallid stones Contend for power with us?—shall antique fame, Or mere word-wizardry of old renown, Match the gold-magic that encircles us, "Rings," "Corners," "Syndicates"?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 6, 1891 by Various
What man, Sumitrá's darling, may Contend with Fate's resistless sway, Whose all-commanding power we find Our former deeds alone can bind?
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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