outrival

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But it's strange to see him come back so abundant, so eloquent, so cut up, as it were, into hundreds of little devils all trying to outrival each other .

From Time Magazine Archive

In death as in life he still remains a man of mystery, with a fortune that would outrival the wildest dreams of a fairy prince.

From Time Magazine Archive

If it could be carried and launched by rapid aircraft, its value would be enormously increased, and the torpedo-carrying aeroplane or seaplane would outrival the submarine as a weapon of offence against enemy shipping.

From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

Their names were few,—but Agassiz was one, And Peirce, the lord of numbers, and alone: Arithmeticians many more will be, But when another to outrival thee?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various

Hundreds of clever men have been trying for more than thirty years to outrival Bell, and yet every telephone in the world is still made on the plan that Bell discovered.

From The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert Newton