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

And the competition has become fierce: Never in human history have there been so many people talking to so many other people for public consumption, entertainment or education, on podcasts and panels and personal appearances. —Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025

His team are the most tactically distinct remaining in the competition, stout in defence and imaginative in attack. —Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 1 May 2025

After the competition concluded, the pair were being evaluated by their referee clinicians when Wortham asked his girlfriend to grab his water bottle. —Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 1 May 2025

Other water judged in the competition was from St. Charles, Northbrook and Collinsville. —Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2025

Rhymes for the competition

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