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This Trump Doctrine emphasizes using American power aggressively — more aggressively than Trump’s immediate predecessors — to reshape key relationships and accrue U.S. advantage in a rivalrous world.—Hal Brands, Twin Cities, 13 July 2025 The sisters were long involved in a rivalrous feud.—Lydia Price, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025 In Trump’s first term, that insight helped the United States begin a messy adjustment to the realities of a rivalrous age.—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025 Ricardo divided society into three rivalrous classes—landlords, capitalists, and workers—and showed how the landlords were able to take the lion’s share of the economic surplus by virtue of owning, and charging rent on, a scarce and valuable resource: land.—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for rivalrous
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