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In baseball, the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees are archrivals.
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Because if Vitello can’t handle a simple case of a star player forgetting the outs at a critical juncture of the game against an archrival, who is to say what will be accepted next for a team that’s already flirting with effective playoff elimination?
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Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 May 2026
OpenAI and Anthropic are now valued at $852 billion and $380 billion, respectively, with Anthropic reportedly in talks to at least match its archrival’s valuation in a new fundraise.
—Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
In recent years, it’s looked like Airbus was set to get a bigger chunk of those giant orders to come than its archrival.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 14 May 2026
In the wake of the Palisades Fire, political archrivals tasked with the re-build became strange bedfellows, tethered to the same torch.
—Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
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Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 May 2026
OpenAI and Anthropic are now valued at $852 billion and $380 billion, respectively, with Anthropic reportedly in talks to at least match its archrival’s valuation in a new fundraise.
—Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
In recent years, it’s looked like Airbus was set to get a bigger chunk of those giant orders to come than its archrival.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 14 May 2026
In the wake of the Palisades Fire, political archrivals tasked with the re-build became strange bedfellows, tethered to the same torch.
—Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
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“Archrival.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/archrival. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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archrival
noun
arch·ri·val
(ˌ)ärch-ˈrī-vəl 
: a principal rival
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