rivaled

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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

With “Gotham at War,” completing his epic “Gotham” trilogy, Mike Wallace, a historian emeritus at John Jay College, has come closer than anyone else and is unlikely to be rivaled anytime soon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

None of next year’s headliners is a stranger to Stagecoach, which premiered in 2007 and which in recent years has rivaled Coachella as a destination for marketers and influencers.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

But there was a time when their importance, along with the activists who peddled their ideas, rivaled those of politicians themselves.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2025

His entry in the Dictionary of National Biography is one of the longest, rivaled in length only by those of Darwin and Lyell among nineteenth-century men of science.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson