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Zhang hopes to export 40,000 bikes to Europe in 2027, while rival manufacturer Shineray sells 90 percent of its low-end models to South America, Southeast Asia, and Africa.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Chuckling, he points at his rival spotter: "But I beat him by a second."
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Somewhere out there, a rival show called “Stop Watch” is writing itself, and CBS built the pitch deck for it, one firing at a time.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
She and her colleagues compiled inventories, negotiated among rival claimants, and dispatched books and archives to Jewish communities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The two rival companies’ headquarters were on opposite sides of town.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
The more immediate issues for Infantino’s rivals are the two deadlines creeping up in the next three months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Aerobic exercise still did most of the heavy lifting, but the two clearly work best together, not as rivals.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
As for Meta specifically, its AI efforts trail U.S. rivals, including Anthropic and OpenAI, not to mention Chinese rivals, DeepSeek included.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Chinese auto giants like BYD and Geely eventually out-competed established foreign rivals on price and are increasingly at the industry's technological forefront.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
The United States and Soviet Union would always be rivals, that was a given.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
Osgood’s popularity was rivaled only by ABC Radio personality Paul Harvey.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 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
Bad Bunny is a true superstar, racking up streaming numbers rivaled only by Taylor Swift.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2026
Truly, Mama rivaled Inti himself in her strength.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
Michael Jackson is a prime example of this conundrumFor his millions of devotees their love for him is rivalled in intensity only by their seething loathing for his critics.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 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
But the groundswell of support for the league is increasingly being rivalled by critical voices.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025
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
Costco has a mass appeal rivaling Hollywood—and it might be our last best source of common culture, writes columnist Adam Chandler.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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
Together, the Jio and NSE listings would be among India's largest IPOs in recent years, rivalling Hyundai Motor India's $3.3bn blockbuster share sale two years ago.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 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
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
A hugely popular K-pop musical animation has seen songs by its fictional bands zoom to the top 10 of music charts, rivalling the success of real-life K-pop groups.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025
Vases and drinking cups were produced of extreme lightness, in the walls of which were embedded patterns rivalling lace-work in fineness and intricacy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
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