the competition

noun

: a person or group that one is trying to succeed against : a person or group that one is competing with

He sized up the competition looking to see who his toughest opponent would likely be.

Don't let the competition know our trade secrets.

In my opinion, this restaurant has no competition. It's so much better that all the others.

Examples of the competition in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

At the time, Pissenem didn’t see an opening for his after-parties among the competition. — Max Marshall, Vanity Fair, 15 July 2026

The boxing ring metaphor was largely abandoned once the competition began, even though there were more opportunities to mix baseball’s tradition of walkup music with fight sports’ swaggering walkouts. — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 14 July 2026

Tourism Minister David Collado used the Miami appearance to encourage visitors to build vacations around the competition. — Vera Lucia Pappaterra, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026

The fever for the 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament, the largest, most expansive in the competition’s 96-year history, has swept North America. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 14 July 2026

Rhymes for the competition

• academician
• cycloaddition
• decomposition
• diagnostician
• disinhibition
• indisposition
• interposition
• juxtaposition
• mathematician
• metacognition
• metaphysician
• neurotransmission