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With a 45-24 win over an old Pac-12 Conference rival, the Bob Chesney era bolstered the Bruins’ belief in the future.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

The airline took the contract from rival British Airways, which had been doing it since the 2008 games in Beijing, external.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Just weeks after Moderna’s positive news, rival BioNTech suffered a setback in a mid-stage colorectal cancer vaccine trial, underscoring the risks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

It also comes as OpenAI and rival Anthropic are both racing towards becoming public companies over the next several months, though OpenAI might not hold its IPO till sometime in 2027, according to reports.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

I could’ve built a wall to rival that one I heard about in China.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

A slowdown in PayPal’s branded checkout and rising competition from rivals like Apple Pay and Google Pay are among PayPal’s biggest challenges, analysts and company executives have said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Market-share losses to Chinese rivals will likely be compounded by the cuts to Volkswagen’s model lineup, noted Citi auto analyst Harald Hendrikse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

It is part a growing trend which has seen Premier League teams become increasingly comfortable with selling to each other, even rivals.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

But the turmoil has had less of an impact than feared, with Germany's energy supplies more diversified than in the past and its companies weathering the shock better than rivals, particularly in Asia.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

Those last to the party were the last to leave: the Ptolemaic Empire outlived its rivals, largely with the same borders, until the Romans defeated Queen Cleopatra VII and her lover Antony in 30.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

When your side scored, it was like the gift of life itself — I’ve never been in a louder environment than when Mexico scored against England, a roar that rivaled a jet engine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

The get-rich ethos that defines our time may be only rivaled by our perilously tantalizing obsession with vengeance.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

“For generations, it provided a common stock of references and allusions, rivaled only by Shakespeare in this respect,” the late writer Christopher Hitchens wrote in a 2011 essay on the King James Version.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

The extent to which he has reshaped U.S. politics and society is rivaled by few of his predecessors; presidents such as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

Gaunt, intense, and excitable, with Rasputin’s piercing eyes and a beard that rivaled Darwin's, de Vries already looked like a younger version of his idol.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The fall of Brendan Rodgers, and Dermot Desmond's startling evisceration of a celebrated manager, could only be rivalled if Celtic's major shareholder suddenly takes a flamethrower to his relationship with O'Neill.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Scientists believe it rivalled the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex in size, measuring around 40 feet long with a 20-inch sword-like crest on its head.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

She delivered an opening monologue that rivalled the Globe greats - Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler - roasting the A-list celebrities in the room.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026

At the height of her fame in the 1950s and 1960s, Lollobrigida, who was known simply as "La Lollo," was an internationally recognised epitome of Italian post-war cinema, rivalled only by Sophia Loren.

From Reuters ● Jan. 16, 2023

It never quite rivalled those institutions, but this was still a significant step in the spread of learning in England.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

Anthropic's Claude chatbot is among the most popular, rivaling ChatGPT and Gemini.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Getting more satellites into low-Earth orbit is critical for AST SpaceMobile, which is working on developing a service rivaling SpaceX’s Starlink, among other competitors.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

More than 2 pounds of honor cords, pins, stoles and medallions — a stash rivaling that of a supreme Allied commander — crashed to the dirt outside the 18-year-old’s Adelanto home.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

"This tells us that by the mid-Cambrian, when evolutionary rates were remarkably high, the oceans were already inhabited by arthropods with anatomical complexity rivaling modern forms," Ortega-Hernández added.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2026

Some of the women were capable of lightning- fast mental math, rivaling their mechanical calculating machines for speed and accuracy.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

That will remain their focus as attention turns to rivalling the sport's greatest stars on its biggest stages.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

"In the long run, it may well be competing to become the container handling hub in the entire Indo-Pacific region," Joshi said, rivalling Singapore and Malaysia's Port Klang.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

Before the war, Dubai was the world's second-biggest airport in terms of passengers transiting, after Atlanta, while Doha had passenger levels rivalling those of Hong Kong or Frankfurt.

From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026

Eastwood also highlighted the importance of seasonal attractions to its customers - with Halloween now rivalling its summer season in driving profits at some attractions.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025

Columbia will then grow rapidly, speedily rivalling Augusta in the number and success of the cotton mills.

From The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South by Broadus Mitchell