jostling

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AI usage in China -- the world's second-largest economy which is jostling with the US for an edge in the AI race -- was 16.4 percent, the report said.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

That Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei seem to hate each other for real is an additional wrinkle in the companies’ jostling for people’s hearts and minds.

From Slate • Apr. 14, 2026

The jostling of the body during the 25-mile trip would have ruined its value as evidence, they said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Minutes later, motorists filled the roads, with cars, trucks, scooters, motorcycles — anything with wheels — jostling in a flurry of honking and shouting in a bid to get out to the highways.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

The first European adventurers in the Western Hemisphere did not make careful population counts, but they repeatedly described indigenous America as a crowded, jostling place—“a beehive of people,” as Las Casas put it in 1542.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann