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competitor

[kuhm-pet-i-ter] / kəmˈpɛt ɪ tər /


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The Journal only looked at ratings that were in effect during overlapping periods and used discrete, nine-character identifiers—known as Cusip numbers—to identify debt instruments that were rated by both Egan-Jones and a competitor.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Apple has plans to release its own competitor wearable, although the rollout is being put on ice given the controversy around Meta’s glasses.

From Slate Aug. 5, 2026

Novo has struggled to regain its footing against Lilly, an aggressive and strategic competitor in the GLP-1 market.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

Just last week, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced that bots it was developing had escaped what was supposed to be a controlled offline environment to hack a competitor.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

Nearing the finish line for the penultimate time, Louie fixed his eyes on the gleaming head of the pomaded competitor, who was many runners ahead.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

Their competitors are going to destroy them using those tools.

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

“I don’t know the needs of the two competitors that are right now trying to talk to each other, but we don’t see a need for a transformative M&A right now,” Doustdar said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

SpaceX thus rents out its machines to its own competitors as its AI model Grok struggles to gain commercial traction against OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

Glasgow 2026 was also hurt by the absence or late withdrawal of big-name competitors, particularly in athletics, which missed Keely Hodgkinson, Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Dina Asher-Smith.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

She expected them to rush to the long table stacked with identical bows and arrows, but apparently none of the twenty-one other competitors were in much of a hurry to go home.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas




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