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Earlier, Blackstone and Google said they plan to create an AI cloud company to rival the likes of CoreWeave using Google’s specialized chips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

It comes a week after Chinese AI start-up Moonshot unveiled Kimi K3 - a massive new artificial intelligence model it said could rival top US firms.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

In April, his production company Wonder Project launched a joint venture called Innovative Dreams with Luma, a rival to Runway.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

Finnish elevator maker Kone backed its full-year guidance despite booking hefty costs from its planned acquisition of German rival TK Elevator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

After ten years of bitterness and competition, this was the first time Fischer had had a friendly interchange with his American rival.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

The Commission argued Google's practices limited consumer choice and gave its own services an unfair advantage over rivals.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

The EU fined the US giant 460 million euros for illegally favouring the company's own services -- for example, Google Flights or Google Hotels -- over rivals in search results.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

In his second term Trump has focused primarily on strengthening America's economic influence to compete with China and other rivals.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

The same can’t be said for some of GM’s rivals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

My stomach is really kicking now, cuz Creighton schools have always been rivals of Woodson schools.

From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist

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

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 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

Yellowstone elevated television to a new level, and did so without special effects or CGI, but instead via a combination of compelling story, strong writing and acting, and cinematography that rivaled that of movies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

“It’s only rivaled by the ‘84 Sarajevo team.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026

It was a much better education than Pong had gotten at the prison and even rivaled some of the private schools in Chattana.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

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

The firm said at the time its new chatbot rivalled ChatGPT.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025

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

Some were riding to fairs as great as that of Troyes, others to universities which rivalled Paris, where there were twenty thousand scholars whose ranks eventually provided seven popes.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

A new wave of wealth from the AI industry results in rents in San Francisco that average $5,500 a month, rivaling New York prices and leaving even well-paid newcomers scrambling for a place to live.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

The bank tracked that metric for roughly 45 developed and emerging economies, and found 27 saw a median March jump of 5.5%, rivaling what was seen after Russia invaded Ukraine in March 2022.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 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

EXCLUSIVE: The pharmaceutical giant is re-entering the obesity market and aims to become a top-three player, rivaling the likes of Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

Pushing himself off the ground, Sheed found himself among a gang of Clock Watchers rivaling the library gathering.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

Together, the Jio and NSE listings would be among India's largest IPOs in recent years, rivalling Hyundai Motor India's $3.3bn blockbuster share sale two years ago.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 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

They believe its steep walls could form the deepest blue hole in the Caribbean, rivalling Belize's famous Great Blue Hole.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

The cyclone's landfall was likely one of the strongest recorded in the region during the satellite era, rivalling Geralda in February 1994, it said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

The knowledge of past events so conveyed was frequently most remarkable and was circumstantially correct, even rivalling in this respect the reports which we have of Jung-Stilling and Zschokke.

From Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by Mason, R. Osgood