compete
Example Sentences
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The state’s plan to fix things—including approving big rate increases to spur insurers to compete for customers—has so far failed to do the trick.
Crews were filming the last episodes this week as the Muslim holy month kicked off -- primetime viewing in the Arab world, with channels and outlets furiously competing for eager audiences' attention.
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But Washington is similarly made of overlapping, sometimes competing, camps.
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This year, more than a thousand players came to compete in Sobetsu, but not a single foreign team is among the 118 entrants.
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Wildly different genres will compete for that award, which pits "Hamnet" against commercial success "Bridget Jones, Mad About the Boy" and biographical film "I Swear".
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