one-upmanship

That kind of provocative behavior will lead to years, even a lifetime, of one-upmanship, backbiting and behind-the-scenes maneuvers.

The resulting game of financial one-upmanship has tied the fates of the world’s biggest semiconductor and cloud companies—and vast swaths of the U.S. economy—to OpenAI, essentially making it too big to fail.

Despite California’s kumbaya vibe, a deep lode of hate and racist one-upmanship undergirds Southern California.

Their history is littered with games of political one-upmanship, legal fights and loud, national back-and-forths in service of their policies and parties.

Like a taut earthquake fault that too often unbelts itself and cuts loose with repellent force, a deep lode of hate and racist one-upmanship undergirds Southern California.