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That Scrubs failure could be rivaled by that lottery-winning season of Roseanne most of us prefer to pretend never happened.

Her fame in the 60s and 70s rivaled that of any celebrity in the world.

Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery is the most busy day of the year (though rivaled by Veterans' Day).

The whole incident was a PR nightmare for McCain, rivaled only by the shenanigans of his own running mate.

In art history, their achievement rivaled the invention of Cubism.

They rivaled the Jacobins in the endeavor to see who could strike the heaviest blows against the throne.

It is still the most brilliant illuminating gas we have, and is rivaled by the electric arc-light only.

But no sylph came again; no form rivaled the zephyr before me.

Capable botanists and chemists are employed, and nature herself is rivaled in delicate construction and fragrance even.

The general orders of some subordinate Confederate commanders repeated or rivaled such denunciations and threats.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rivaled, such as: emulate, equal, resemble, contend, contest, and correspond.

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

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