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This positions them in a league table that includes City players and ones from rival clubs who play in a similar role.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Reliance Industries’ Jio Platforms, which filed its draft IPO prospectus in June, could be a close rival.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Oregon romps over an in-state rival, triggering another debate about the value of record-padding games.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Andie gets lured into a lunch date with a rival executive who tries to woo her over to ABC.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Primi herself used Baggies in her practice of layman's santería, concocting powders and potions to make this ache or that rival woman go away.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

The automaker rivals ultrafast charging from BYD as automakers aim to entice buyers in China’s slowing market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

"The two countries should be partners rather than rivals," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

But consider this: The Dodgers spotted their division rivals 157 games before rolling out their varsity lineup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

But as fried-chicken deals proliferate among its rivals, Saleh said that McDonald’s is now stuck in a “game of chicken,” with “no choice but to play.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The tracks led in a direction the boys were familiar with, toward the gym where the Fighting Flamingos played all of their rivals.

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

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

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 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

If Artemisia’s dramatic images announced her admiration for Caravaggio’s innovations, her dramatic personal history rivaled that of the bad boy of the Baroque, although, unlike him, she didn’t murder anyone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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

Truly, Mama rivaled Inti himself in her strength.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

The fall of Brendan Rodgers, and Dermot Desmond's startling evisceration of a celebrated manager, could only be rivalled if Celtic's major shareholder suddenly takes a flamethrower to his relationship with O'Neill.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 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

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

Erin Mulvaney explains how the Wachtell defections reflect a broader trend of elite New York firms losing ground to bigger rivals, where rainmakers play high-stakes musical chairs for pay packages rivaling those of NBA stars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 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

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

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

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

The gentlemen brilliant in scarlet, the ladies half rivalling them in masculine hats, but softening the effect with gossamer veils wound scarf-like around them, and a graceful flow of dark drapery.

From Norston's Rest by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens