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compete

[kuhm-peet] / kəmˈpit /


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“It was an honor and a privilege to be here and compete with these guys, and to wear LA across your hat and across your chest,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Alphabet-owned streamer is working on a feature for audiobooks, a bid to compete with offerings from Spotify and Audible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

While LIV chief executive Scott O’Neil has touted the idea that players should be able to compete freely across different tours, the golf ecosystem hasn’t agreed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

It would give Sky access to millions more viewers, while bosses hope it would help both compete with streaming giants such as Netflix.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

The trip was paid for from the $5,000 appearance fee he was getting to compete for the United States in the Olympiad in Varna, Bulgaria.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

His exit comes as Uber competes for its share of a growing robotaxi market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Like "being shot out of a cannon" is the closest comparison that driver Susanne Callin can come up with for the extreme motorsport she competes in.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The company competes in a “very fragmented space,” is more than double the size of its next biggest competitor and has been using AI to optimize pricing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

About 40% of Portland’s market-rate housing supply competes with affordable units, meaning that their prices are within 15% of each other, a Yardi Matrix report found in July.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

At night, every living thing competes for a chance to be heard.

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson

“Not talking only about the results, talking about the way that we competed and the way that we came together, I think it was amazing,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

One suburban Los Angeles 6U team competed in 108 games over the course of a year, even traveling to Texas for a tournament.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

The gamble - spending its entire basketball budget on Jordan before he had even competed in the NBA - made Nike what it is today.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

For South Korea, another gaming heavyweight, Park So-yeon became the first woman to represent their national team when she competed in Nagoya.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

The fact that I’d competed and placed in the top sixteen was a great start.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

Scientists at Lund University have discovered that these competing demands come with a surprising trade-off.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

That is a company projection, and the announcement does not identify the competing systems behind the comparison.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Rivals actor Dyer and his daughter, who is currently competing on Strictly Come Dancing, joined the protest in September alongside singer Becky Hill, and Surfers Against Sewage.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The county faced no opposition to its bid for the point-in-time count and the regional application, but the city submitted competing bids for the database and matching system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

When Isabella’s parents first got divorced, they both bought her a lot of stuff as if they were competing to see which one she’d pick to love best.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée


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