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Coke could steal a big contract from its rival, cutting Pepsi’s reach in fast food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

The 29-year-old needed only two rounds to stop his British rival at London's O2 Arena, retaining his title with a performance far more emphatic than their thrilling first encounter in May.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Unlike crosstown rival General Motors, now much smaller in Europe than in decades past, Ford executives say they want to keep selling cars on the continent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

The companies said they are drawn by the legacy studios they hope to rival.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

He knew now that Jasper was far beneath him, had been sent perhaps only to bring him here tonight, no rival but a mere servant of Ged’s destiny.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

They face all three of their divisional rivals over the next three weeks.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The Lancers’ only defeats are to Trinity League rivals — three to JSerra and the other to Mater Dei.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

These same rivals, he said, are also promoting yes-or-no bets on sports and pop-culture events as investing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

New Delhi has also insisted that its final tariff rate should be competitive with those received by other regional manufacturing rivals such as Vietnam.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

“We’ve got our clásico with our arch rivals in Davie tonight,” Papi says.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

“For generations, it provided a common stock of references and allusions, rivaled only by Shakespeare in this respect,” the late writer Christopher Hitchens wrote in a 2011 essay on the King James Version.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 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

Yellowstone elevated television to a new level, and did so without special effects or CGI, but instead via a combination of compelling story, strong writing and acting, and cinematography that rivaled that of movies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

Bad Bunny is a true superstar, racking up streaming numbers rivaled only by Taylor Swift.

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2026

I was seven, and I had no front teeth, legs that rivaled a giraffe’s, and a fully grown nose.

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan

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

The star power in the London production will be rivalled by another new version on Broadway pairing Heartstopper's Kit Connor with West Side Story's Rachel Zegler, which will open in September.

From BBC ● May 24, 2024

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

Some members of this group eventually became enormous predators, rivaling tyrannosaurs in size.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

The IPO is set to become one of the Philippine Stock Exchange’s largest ever listings, rivaling that of food-and-beverage company Monde Nissin, which raised $1 billion in 2021.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Getting more satellites into low-Earth orbit is critical for AST SpaceMobile, which is working on developing a service rivaling SpaceX’s Starlink, among other competitors.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 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

Claude Fable 5 is a version of Anthropic's Claude Mythos, an AI program rivalling competitors OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

"In the long run, it may well be competing to become the container handling hub in the entire Indo-Pacific region," Joshi said, rivalling Singapore and Malaysia's Port Klang.

From Barron's ● May 18, 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

After years of temporary pop-up events, streaming giant Netflix will make its first foray into the theme park space this week, rivalling entertainment giants Disney and Universal Studios.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2025

The flowers of this plant hang in clusters two feet long, rivalling the purest blue of the sky above them, and greet the approaching traveller with a perfume which the fabled East could not surpass.

From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various