rivalrous

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He became a life-long friend of the future Carry On star, though Williams's published diaries reveal their relationship constantly veered between the confessional, supportive and rivalrous.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

Constricted pupils and licking lips also tend to accompany such rivalrous encounters.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 25, 2023

Nagourney analogizes two abrasive and rivalrous figures, Howell Raines and Jill Abramson.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2023

In 1990, Ms. Gilot, continuing to reflect on him, published “Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art,” an account of the two artists’ rivalrous friendship that focused on the years in which she witnessed it.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

These agencies and half-hidden powers were fiercely rivalrous.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman