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rival

adjective as in opposing

noun as in person who opposes in competition

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In some cases, companies have alerted Cfius to a rival’s connections with foreign investors, said startup executives and lawyers.

Heading into Friday night, no division leader enjoys more than a one-point cushion over its nearest rival and the fifth-place team in each division is no more than one point out of a potential playoff spot.

It called on scientists and researchers from around the world, including collaborations between rival countries in the middle of the Cold War.

From Vox

Residents under 40 continued to drive the bulk of the infections, and those above 70 still accounted for the vast majority of deaths — an average of 58 a day in December, which rivaled May as the deadliest month.

Still, it’s striking that South Dakota, a relatively rural state, has death and illness rates that rival the numbers of much more densely populated states.

“The US cannot tolerate the idea of any rival economic entity,” Stone writes.

Launched just 13 years ago, it quickly became a serious rival to MAS and a rising juggernaut in Asia.

Assad-affiliated Christian militias skirt around the territory of rival groups aligned with the YPG.

Abramson, biting her tongue, was widely portrayed in rival outlets as classily above the fray.

They unleashed a hail of bullets to rival the final scene in ‘Bonnie and Clyde.’

He could not tell what I meant by secrets of state, where an enemy or some rival nation were not in the case.

He and his friends obtained the lease, for thirty-one years, of a rival line, which turned out a great financial success.

Bonaparte already foresaw the day when France should lie at his feet; he instinctively divined in Bernadotte a possible rival.

But later the Marshal had bitter cause to repent these triumphs won over his rival.

Even Tim, so fine and big, had in this homely, lanky man a rival well worth watching.

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On this page you'll find 154 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rival, such as: competing, battling, combatant, combating, conflicting, and contending.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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