How to Use hypercompetitive in a Sentence

hypercompetitive

adjective

• Miller is a hypercompetitive guy who can be abrasive and isn’t afraid to push those around him hard.
  — Chris Johnston, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
• Preller is hypercompetitive, doing some of his best work when under heavy duress.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2026
• That seems more promising than relying just on the hypercompetitive grocery space.
  — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 17 June 2021
• Here are our personal theories for what comes next for our favorite hypercompetitive trio.
  — Vulture Staff, Vulture, 1 May 2024
• Now, researchers are scrambling to survive in a system that’s become both hypercompetitive and opaque.
  — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 30 Apr. 2026
• That amounted to a cost of about $45 for each new user — a bargain in the hypercompetitive gambling market.
  — Joe Drape, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
• This isn’t the hypercompetitive youth sports machine that churns out anxiety alongside achievement.
  — Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 9 Sep. 2025
• Hammon is hypercompetitive, the product of a household that made everything into a game.
  — Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
• In the hypercompetitive world of professional sports, a new archetype of champion has been quietly emerging over the past few years.
  — Beau River, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
• Few women ventured into the wave’s hypercompetitive lineup back then.
  — Outside Online, 2 Feb. 2022
• Those can be difficult to come buy in the region’s hypercompetitive market, however.
  — Dylan Dhindsa, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2022
• In the hypercompetitive world of dancehall, a popular riddim is an invitation to brinkmanship, artists big and small jumping on the beat to see who can make the most iconic song.
  — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
• Thomas and other agents say out-of-state buyers are often extremely decisive in a market that's already hypercompetitive.
  — Jim Buchta, Star Tribune, 15 May 2021
• After two players departed for a hypercompetitive team, another handful opted for club, leaving the rest to find a tryout or give up soccer.
  — Gail Cornwall, Time, 3 Apr. 2026
• And that translated into a hypercompetitive approach when Paul arrived as a freshman.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2021
• The excess of retail space has also softened up some landlords in formerly hypercompetitive areas, Zagor added.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2021
• In today’s hypercompetitive environment, retailers are both setting trends and trying to keep up with others.
  — Sanjeev Siotia, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• Hemingway had two modes in his best writing, which register merely as two moods in his letters—hypercompetitive and sensually evocative.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
• For the most part, the new middle class seems too preoccupied with the intense pressures of owning a home and raising a child in a hypercompetitive society to get involved in politics.
  — John Osburg, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014
• In the early nineties, making it through hip-hop’s hypercompetitive gantlet didn’t guarantee stability.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Observers have noticed a growing malaise among a middle class weary of toiling in a hypercompetitive environment without much promise for material gain.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• When prices are skyrocketing, station owners earn less, and may lose money in the hypercompetitive environment spawned by expensive gasoline.
  — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022
• Adidas entered the partnership in hopes of catching up to Nike, which had long dominated the hypercompetitive global sneaker market.
  — Megan Twohey, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• The appetite for intelligence gathering in the hypercompetitive tech world continues, though.
  — New York Times, 28 Nov. 2021
• That can’t happen for a team without a wide margin for error, both within games and in the hypercompetitive jockeying in the Western Conference standings.
  — Varun Shankar, Houston Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2026
• The surge can be explained, in part, by the coronavirus pandemic, as these athletes, hypercompetitive by nature, embraced long runs, indoor and outdoor bike rides, and endless pool laps to ward off isolation and set new goals.
  — David W. Chen, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2022
• Even so, my intention wasn’t to transform every casual kid’s activity into a hypercompetitive nightmare realm.
  — Heather Havrilesky, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2022
• To cope with a strained supply chain and a hypercompetitive labor market that sometimes led to understaffing, the company spent $2 billion during the third quarter on extra pay and incentives.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2021
• The rise has nonetheless drawn national attention, with some critics arguing that students are abusing the system to secure lighter workloads or an edge in hypercompetitive classrooms.
  — Preston Fore, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2025
• But Amy Madigan, who seemed like the rebellious, out-of-the-box pick for critics groups, made it into the hypercompetitive supporting actress category.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026