one-up
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"I was trying to one-up him every single time, and he was trying to one-up me. It was almost like a battle," she recalls.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
If it doesn’t try to one-up Fox, Netflix could explore other acquisitions.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Ever since the launch of ChatGPT, top artificial-intelligence labs have been embroiled in a cutthroat competition to one-up each other with powerful new features.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 18, 2026
So rather than just creating gadgets that one-up the phone, you get to actually explore new use cases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025
John Davies claimed that he had found a snakeskin in the woods near the school, and Chet planned to one-up him.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
His wife, Amber, one-upped him, telling Marmol he should do it for the rest of the weekend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Anthropic one-upped its rival the next month, fielding proposals from investors that would value it at as much as $900 billion, according to multiple reports.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Not wanting to be one-upped by my speed-reading girlfriend, I threw myself into it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026
Musk went around the table, prodding the other members of the team as they one-upped one another with outrageous examples of their own.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2025
But of course, being the funny one, he one-upped me right away.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
With Amazon One, the company may be most concerned with one-upping its competitors, Apple and Google, which already collect retina and fingerprint data from millions of device users.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2024
Anderson has a knack for somehow one-upping himself while simultaneously finding fresh twists on his ever-evolving aesthetic world, as if each new film is the most Wes Anderson a Wes Anderson film can ever be.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023
While Watkins leans into scorn for the insufferable urbanites one-upping one another, he seems to treasure the more introspective figures of Morkan and Ames.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
Drivers have stayed busy by one-upping each other with antics and practical jokes.
From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2022
They've created a maelstrom of memes, all of which feature the bear one-upping Kane in some way.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2021
