compete
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“We need to be able to compete at China speed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Different species compete for nutrients, exchange chemical compounds, and influence one another's growth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Wardley, meanwhile, has shown he can compete at world level, but the manner of Saturday's defeat exposed a gulf in technical ability.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Then again, it’s tough to compete for attention when Musk’s rocket vapor-cloud filled the air and the Roadster did flips through the sky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Every four years, the Twelve Towns had a magic tournament—the Golden Frog Games, where the towns would compete in everything from toad racing to spell casting to enchanted dressmaking.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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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
In the past, OpenAI has used the conference as an opportunity to launch new models and services that reduce costs for software developers—a segment the ChatGPT-maker competes with rival AI company Anthropic to win over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 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
The youngster competes in Puyo Puyo Champions, a puzzle game similar to Tetris which was developed in Japan.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Justice encouraged Will to join the Boy Scouts, and when he was invited to join his school’s Academic Team, which competes in quiz bowls, she insisted that he try it.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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The Champions League place is calculated to be worth £32.6m - the £39m earned by Manchester City minus the Toffees' £6.4m winnings from the Europa League they competed in instead.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
International Math Olympiad team; Hoke competed in the world championships of competitive programming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 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 only tournament the golfer known as Lefty has competed in this year was LIV Golf South Africa, where he finished at 7-under par and tied for 48th place, in March.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
To lock down her spot on the four-person team, Marjory competed against five other finalists in one last Dewey decimal challenge.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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Together, these findings reveal a carefully regulated system in which the brain must balance competing signals to maintain healthy sleep and hormone activity.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Pipelines neatly illustrated the competing pull of nationalism and economics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
That is a company projection, and the announcement does not identify the competing systems behind the comparison.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 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
It’s almost like they’re competing to see whose mouth will catch on fire first.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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