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Wiles and Vonn are both teammates and competitors, but the dynamic is more uplifting than rivalrous.—Sierra Shafer, Outside, 18 Nov. 2025 The monkey business is dominated by a handful of highly secretive and rivalrous brokers.—Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025 Romer's endogenous growth theory provides a fascinating lens for understanding AI inference costs by treating knowledge and ideas as non-rivalrous goods with unique economic properties.—Anjana Susarla, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 If either of the then-senators were to leave for the White House, their governors would need to appoint a successor — a potentially messy scenario in states where the Republican Party is filled with rivalrous internal factions.—Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 21 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for rivalrous
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