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Had Fury been sitting ringside watching his rival get dropped twice in the opening round, would Joshua have found the same reserves of determination to turn the fight around?

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

His media company Paramount Skydance’s pitch early this year was that its proposed $111-billion acquisition of rival Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Supporters of Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams’s chief rival, protected Jarvis from punishment, but a month later Congress formed the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The San Francisco-based startup, a chief rival to OpenAI, said the model tops industry benchmarks for coding and knowledge work while consuming fewer computing resources than earlier versions.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

And therefore Jasper stood alone as his rival, who must be put to shame.

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

"Personal and systemic action are not necessarily rivals," he says.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026

The company could get aggressive at these auctions by not only collecting spectrum as a potential bargaining chip, but also by bidding up prices and raising the cost of business for its rivals, Zhu noted.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026

Most of the delegates elected to the convention last weekend support former state Senate President Troy Jackson, and all of his meaningful rivals quickly dropped out.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026

It is getting harder to stay ahead of rivals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The voyage of the James Caird over 800 miles of winter ocean rivals any small-boat journey in history.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

Sheehan was charged with three runs in five-plus innings, a massive turnaround coming off the second-shortest start of his career, only rivaled by a planned one-inning outing at the end of last season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 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

A major YouTuber’s self-made, self-financed sci-fi horror film blew past “Melania” at the box office this past weekend and rivaled a new Disney release for No. 1.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 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

When McCallum arrived in London in 1966, his airport reception from ranks of screaming girls rivalled that of The Beatles.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2023

He said her reign was unlikely to be rivalled.

From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2022

It never quite rivalled those institutions, but this was still a significant step in the spread of learning in England.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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

More than 2 pounds of honor cords, pins, stoles and medallions — a stash rivaling that of a supreme Allied commander — crashed to the dirt outside the 18-year-old’s Adelanto home.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

"This tells us that by the mid-Cambrian, when evolutionary rates were remarkably high, the oceans were already inhabited by arthropods with anatomical complexity rivaling modern forms," Ortega-Hernández added.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2026

EXCLUSIVE: The pharmaceutical giant is re-entering the obesity market and aims to become a top-three player, rivaling the likes of Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

Pushing himself off the ground, Sheed found himself among a gang of Clock Watchers rivaling the library gathering.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

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

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

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

Before the war, Dubai was the world's second-biggest airport in terms of passengers transiting, after Atlanta, while Doha had passenger levels rivalling those of Hong Kong or Frankfurt.

From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 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

Columbia will then grow rapidly, speedily rivalling Augusta in the number and success of the cotton mills.

From The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South by Mitchell, Broadus