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competitor

[kuhm-pet-i-ter] / kəmˈpɛt ɪ tər /


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"When does Sky wonder if they are paying a lot of money in wages to train their next competitor?"

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

At a plant in Sherman, Texas, roughly the size of a football field, Cisco competitor Coherent makes lasers for iPhones — and for data centers.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

Grinberg acknowledged that products built by one startup one day can likely be replicated by a competitor the next day.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Coxon, who previously worked at Anthropic’s competitor OpenAI, noted that OpenAI had not grappled with “the civilizational stakes.”

From Salon Sep. 12, 2026

He had handled the Columbia account for twenty years and didn’t like the idea of losing even a small part of the business to a competitor.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

He feels he has no choice but to keep up with other dealers in his area, even if his competitors are obscuring fees and add-ons, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

It’s also compounding an unprecedented poaching spree of top performers across the top law firms, with competitors dangling lucrative compensation packages and senior positions and sometimes hiring away entire teams.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

For 32 years, the women's 800m was absent from the Olympics, with its competitors deemed too frail.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

Charles Lemonides of ValueWorks presented three stocks of underdogs he favors against larger competitors.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

But Mariel and Dagmara were seasoned competitors and had been on Team USA consistently.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad




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