Examples of archrival in a Sentence
In baseball, the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees are archrivals.
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The latest tension between Pakistan and Afghanistan has coincided with Afghan Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s first visit to Pakistan’s archrival, India.
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Reuters, NBC news, 15 Oct. 2025
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
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
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Reuters, NBC news, 15 Oct. 2025
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
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
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“Archrival.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/archrival. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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archrival
noun
arch·ri·val
(ˌ)ärch-ˈrī-vəl 
: a principal rival
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