vie
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The overhaul occurs as two candidates vie to become the elected superintendent in November.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Barstool started in the Myspace era and has since watched Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitch vie for supremacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
And the second is this World Cup will feature a third-placed table for the first time since 1994 as teams vie for the eight remaining slots.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Big Tech along with AI start-ups Anthropic and OpenAI are currently fighting for the top AI talent in the marketplace as they all vie for superiority in the space.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
No longer did they vie with each other to give her gifts.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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With a per capita income of $1,500, according to the World Bank, Pakistan vies with landlocked Nepal for the title of poorest country in the region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
The India investment is part of Microsoft's $23bn AI expansion across countries including Canada, Portugal and the UAE, as the company vies with rivals such as Amazon and Google.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
Investors appear to be catching on to the pattern of escalation, followed immediately by de-escalation, as each side vies for maximum leverage.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025
SpaceX's massive Starship rocket soared into its 11th test flight Monday, as the US company vies to ready its aerospace technology to deliver NASA's lunar projects and fulfill Elon Musk's Mars ambitions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
Survey the gardens, fields, and bow’rs, The buds, the blossoms, and the flow’rs, Then tell me where the woodbine grows That vies in sweetness with the rose?
From Moores Fables for the Female Sex by Edward Caldwell Moore
Selected from 17 finalists on a 2025 competition reality show called “Santos Bravos — La Serie,” the contestants had vied to become part of Santos Bravos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
According to Tokyo's metropolitan government, some 108,000 people vied to get one of the 4,400 slots available for one last look at the zoo's beloved pandas.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
Many clients who spoke to The Times said that among the partners, Yaghoubtil in particular vied hard to get their business.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
Beijing also hosted the world's first-ever humanoid robot games in August, where more than 500 "athletes" vied in disciplines ranging from basketball to competitive cleaning.
From Barron's ● Nov. 28, 2025
Another philosophy vied with the atomic theory, and instead of posing such bizarre concepts as the infinite vacuum, it turned the universe into a cozy nutshell.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Despite this health warning, two candidates are on the ballot paper vying to take on the challenge - Michael Marra and Joe Fagan.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Patrick Reed, the 2018 Masters winner, also left LIV this year and has been vying to return by playing in Europe, where the top-10 finishers get PGA Tour cards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The companies are also vying for physical infrastructure that would enable their aircraft to take off and land in crowded areas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Flush with cash, Wall Street and Silicon Valley are vying to hire the same tiny pool of genius graduates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
I laugh, remembering the teeming streets of London, with carriages and horses and people and hogs all vying for space on the cobblestones.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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