outrival
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But it's strange to see him come back so abundant, so eloquent, so cut up, as it were, into hundreds of little devils all trying to outrival each other .
From Time Magazine Archive
In death as in life he still remains a man of mystery, with a fortune that would outrival the wildest dreams of a fairy prince.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shortly after this era of opening commercial prosperity in the Mediterranean, the hardy Northmen performed deeds on the deep which outrival those of the great Columbus himself, and were undertaken many centuries before his day.
From Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Their names were few,—but Agassiz was one, And Peirce, the lord of numbers, and alone: Arithmeticians many more will be, But when another to outrival thee?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various
If it could be carried and launched by rapid aircraft, its value would be enormously increased, and the torpedo-carrying aeroplane or seaplane would outrival the submarine as a weapon of offence against enemy shipping.
From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
