In baseball, the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees are archrivals.
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Pakistan, China’s closest military partner and currently the only foreign operator of the aircraft, claims its J-10Cs shot down Indian fighters during the archrivals' five-day conflict in May.—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025 However, West Virginia just handed its archrival a transitive loss to the MAC’s scrappy Ohio.—Jason Kirk, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025 One of the biggest is China’s ties with Pakistan, India’s archrival and a fellow nuclear power.—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 31 Aug. 2025 As the clock wound down on the 1949 Iron Bowl, with Auburn clinging to a 1-point lead over archrival Alabama at neutral-site Legion Field, the Tigers’ star quarterback Travis Tidwell lined up hoping to rattle the Crimson Tide’s kicker on an extra-point attempt.—Sofia Chierchio, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for archrival
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