outrival

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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

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

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

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

A pleasing sight to-day we see, Four churches joined in harmony, There difference was but trivial, But strove each other to outrival.

From Poems of James McIntyre by McIntyre, James