rivaled

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Osgood’s popularity was rivaled only by ABC Radio personality Paul Harvey.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

The extent to which he has reshaped U.S. politics and society is rivaled by few of his predecessors; presidents such as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

The interiors would be made of leather that rivaled Prada’s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

But there was a time when their importance, along with the activists who peddled their ideas, rivaled those of politicians themselves.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2025

His entry in the Dictionary of National Biography is one of the longest, rivaled in length only by those of Darwin and Lyell among nineteenth-century men of science.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson