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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | challenger, competition, competitor, contender |
| Type of | contestant |
| Has types | semifinalist, street fighter, champ, tilter, title-holder, world-beater, tier, champion, comer, enemy, favorite, favourite, finalist, foe, front-runner, king, queen, runner-up, scratch, second best |
| Derivation | rivalrous |
he had respect for his rivals.
Examples of rival
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China is a longtime ally and weapons supplier to Pakistan, India's bitter rival.
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The Indians scored just 43 points and finished 56 ahead of GSL rival University.
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Rangers are in second place with 65 points, two fewer than Glasgow rival Celtic.
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He did not like a new American League East rival poaching his scouting director.
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A perfect example of this came against non-conference rival Lutheran on Jan. 28.
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Intel, meanwhile, senses the heat and is pushing back against its scrappy rival.
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In the pro-cess, the manufacturers are helping make India a true rival to China.
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At the same time, Condit grabbed a golden opportunity to get rid of a key rival.
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Microsoft is working on a music player, Zune, that it hopes will rival the iPod.
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- Equal: be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"
- The contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"
- Be the rival of, be in competition with; "we are rivaling for first place in the race"
- Binaural is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on May 16, 2000 through Epic Records. ...
- A rivalry is the opposition between two competing parties (rivals). Someone's main rival is called an archrival. The words rivalry, rival and arch rival may also refer to:
- Rival was a sternwheel steamboat that ran on the Willamette River between Oregon City and Portland, Oregon from 1860 to 1868. Rival was intended to be a boat which would promise low fares in an effort to beat a steamboat monopoly which was then in formation.
- (Rivals (film)) Rivals is a 1925 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.
- (Rivals (Frasier)) The seventh season of Frasier originally aired between September 1999 and May 2000, beginning on September 23, 1999.
- (Rivals (novel)) Rivals is a novel by the English author Jilly Cooper. It is the second of the Rutshire Chronicles, a series of books set in the fictional English county of Rutshire.
