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During the same period that Google and DeepMind were navigating their new relationship, a rival lab by the name of OpenAI had begun working on a large language model.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

That football lovers should want to show a connection with arguably the greatest player of all time comes as no surprise - likewise his long-term rival in the now-distinct yellow of Al-Nassr.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

It followed the off-the-ice romance between two professional hockey stars that play for the rival teams the Montreal Metros and the Boston Raiders in a fictional Major League Hockey league.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Similarly, CoreWeave’s cloud rival Nebius Group surged 34% to $259.20 after it said quarterly revenue had risen by more than five-fold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

A group of customers from the Bear Flag mistook Western Biological for a rival house and charged up the stairs whooping with joy.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

Now, her European reign has been ended by talented Swiss 22-year-old Audrey Werro, and a fresh wave of world-class rivals appear set to define the next chapter of Hodgkinson's story.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

The company’s newest Gemini 3 model swept industry benchmarks, beating out rivals OpenAI and Anthropic in performance after getting a late start to the large-language-model race.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

Liverpool is one of England’s most successful soccer teams and has invested hundreds of millions of dollars on talent in recent years to keep pace with rivals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

“Netflix has since effectively won the streaming wars. Its subscriber base now exceeds any competitor’s by a wide margin, and that scale is self-reinforcing,” and it can “outspend rivals on content.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

Poetry and drama were deeply involved in networks of patronage: praise-poems, sucky-up dedications, scurrilous broadsides, and vicious “flytings” of one’s rivals.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

When your side scored, it was like the gift of life itself — I’ve never been in a louder environment than when Mexico scored against England, a roar that rivaled a jet engine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

The get-rich ethos that defines our time may be only rivaled by our perilously tantalizing obsession with vengeance.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 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

The damage caused by the Viking berserker rivaled any Turkoman raiding party.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

In Bengal, the form flourished in jatra - a rural, open-air spectacle of music, myth and melodrama that often rivalled cinema in reach, though not in rewards.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026

Scientists believe it rivalled the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex in size, measuring around 40 feet long with a 20-inch sword-like crest on its head.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

He was awarded the tournament's most valuable player award and in Japan his name rivalled #JapanBaseball and #SamuraiJapan in the rush of celebratory online commentary.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2023

At the height of her fame in the 1950s and 1960s, Lollobrigida, who was known simply as "La Lollo," was an internationally recognised epitome of Italian post-war cinema, rivalled only by Sophia Loren.

From Reuters ● Jan. 16, 2023

Some were riding to fairs as great as that of Troyes, others to universities which rivalled Paris, where there were twenty thousand scholars whose ranks eventually provided seven popes.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Anthropic's Claude chatbot is among the most popular, rivaling ChatGPT and Gemini.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

A new wave of wealth from the AI industry results in rents in San Francisco that average $5,500 a month, rivaling New York prices and leaving even well-paid newcomers scrambling for a place to live.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Today, YouTube’s revenue is upward of $60 billion, rivaling Disney’s media arm, Wall Street firm MoffettNathanson estimates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

The bank tracked that metric for roughly 45 developed and emerging economies, and found 27 saw a median March jump of 5.5%, rivaling what was seen after Russia invaded Ukraine in March 2022.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026

Some of the women were capable of lightning- fast mental math, rivaling their mechanical calculating machines for speed and accuracy.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

It encompasses the company's AI assistant and family of models, rivalling OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

In 2024 Cadbury's released orange mini eggs, rivalling Terry's chocolate orange versions which first appeared in 2020, joining other milk and white chocolate varieties.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026

The cyclone's landfall was likely one of the strongest recorded in the region during the satellite era, rivalling Geralda in February 1994, it said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

The world's most populous nation has flexed its spacefaring ambitions in the last decade with its space programme growing considerably, and rivalling the achievements of established powers at a much cheaper price tag.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

Silky hair, rivalling the gloss of the raven’s wing, falls in luxuriant folds down her back; on the slender, delicate neck, whose whiteness shames the swan’s down, rests the beautiful head.

From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by Edmund B. d'Auvergne