competing

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The beauty of the World Cup is the variety of unique styles and players competing against each other on the biggest stage.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was urgently trying to set up a meeting with the president to sort out the competing issues, a person familiar with the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026

But it wouldn’t have—or perhaps even seek—the same access to all-agency intelligence, and it would tend to value its own analyses over those of competing agencies.

From Slate • Jun. 15, 2026

Raising the temperature speeds up the reaction, but it also encourages a competing process known as the reverse water-gas shift reaction, which produces unwanted byproducts and lowers methanol selectivity.

From Science Daily • Jun. 14, 2026

Bobby, feeling as though he were playing hooky from school, had a good time competing in the matches, usually at the relatively leisurely time limit of sixty moves in two hours.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady