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Recent Examples of archrival
The Buckeyes still sit a few slots above the cutline, and a home win over archrival (and Big Ten-leading) Michigan on Sunday could give Ohio State legitimate breathing room.
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Profile Strengths: High-end wins at Illinois and vs. Michigan State.
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Jim Root, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
Those efforts, and a little help from their friends, powered Minnesota’s season sweep over their archrivals from America’s Dairyland for the first time since the 2002-03 season.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 2 Feb. 2025
His character is described as a retired superspy who heads for the destination wedding of his estranged son, and finds himself in proximity with his archrival.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 30 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, Schoen had armed the Giants’ archrival Eagles to return to the Super Bowl with Barkley as their catalyst.
—Pat Leonard, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2025
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Jim Root, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
Those efforts, and a little help from their friends, powered Minnesota’s season sweep over their archrivals from America’s Dairyland for the first time since the 2002-03 season.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 2 Feb. 2025
His character is described as a retired superspy who heads for the destination wedding of his estranged son, and finds himself in proximity with his archrival.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 30 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, Schoen had armed the Giants’ archrival Eagles to return to the Super Bowl with Barkley as their catalyst.
—Pat Leonard, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for archrival
Noun
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In fact, research shows that companies putting talent at the heart of their business strategy achieve higher total shareholder returns than their competitors.—
Sherzod Odilov,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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The event, which included more than 90 competitors from sixth to eighth grade, brought together students from public and independent schools countywide at the Jackie Robinson Family YMCA in San Diego.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Mar. 2025
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Six years later, Sea started Shopee in Singapore and has since become a regional e-commerce behemoth that now competes against rivals such as ByteDance’s TikTok and Alibaba.—
Jonathan Burgos,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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Trump’s rocky relationship with Zelensky goes back five years—to when Trump first held up military assistance Congress had authorized for Ukraine to coerce Zelensky into investigating his political rival Joe Biden.—
Brian Bennett,
TIME,
5 Mar. 2025
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And Bong is the wrong pop artist to convey cultural dissent — as Kendrick Lamar did in his controversial Super Bowl Halftime Show that portrayed black Americans as video game figures resembling Mickey in his space suit and those contestants in Squid Game TV series.—
Armond White,
National Review,
12 Mar. 2025
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Further, protecting contestants from isolation and being exemplified or tokenized – at all levels of productions – is needed to provide greater accountability when portraying the raw realities of LGBTQ people on screen in a reality setting.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Archrival.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archrival. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025.
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