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Recent Examples of compete
Political delays and competing proposals raise questions Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Anthony Rodriguez has so far declined to place the item on the full commission agenda, instead routing it through committees.
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Jim Defede, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
Joseph Baena has won his second bodybuilding competition, after competing in and winning his first gold medal at the NPC Natural Colorado State Championships last weekend.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Apr. 2026
This revealed that the loss of quantum order is not just a passive decay, but an active process driven by competing interactions, amplified by the system’s connection to its environment.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 5 Apr. 2026
Bronny James, along with Bufkin, Dalton Knecht and Smith, have played heavy minutes alongside each other for the South Bay Lakers, who were to compete in the G League’s Western Conference Finals on Sunday night.
—Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 5 Apr. 2026
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Jim Defede, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
Joseph Baena has won his second bodybuilding competition, after competing in and winning his first gold medal at the NPC Natural Colorado State Championships last weekend.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Apr. 2026
This revealed that the loss of quantum order is not just a passive decay, but an active process driven by competing interactions, amplified by the system’s connection to its environment.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 5 Apr. 2026
Bronny James, along with Bufkin, Dalton Knecht and Smith, have played heavy minutes alongside each other for the South Bay Lakers, who were to compete in the G League’s Western Conference Finals on Sunday night.
—Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 5 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for compete
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Taunton will be defensively strong and leans on its captains – Joey Benoit (Brown), Corbin Melo (LF), Jeremy Knief and Dylan Keenun (SS) – to help a mostly new group of starters contend.—
Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
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Whether that amounts to genuine policy momentum or, as critics contend, an elaborate exercise in reputation management may be the defining question of the political economy of the AI age.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
7 Apr. 2026
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The paying public went from raucous to delirious on the next possession, when Curry raced downcourt and splashed a triple off the dribble.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
6 Apr. 2026
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Leonard scored 13 points in the first quarter as the Clippers raced out to a double-digit lead and coasted against a Kings team that is playing out the string of a lost season.—
Oc Register,
Oc Register,
6 Apr. 2026
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They get captured by Hungarian gangsters and have to fight (and kill) their way out of an inn run by a shady former dance prodigy (Uma Thurman).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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Nissie Cadette took the mic and spoke about what an influence Metayer had been on her life, fighting through tears at every word.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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Each independent advocate works differently, doing anything from helping people figure out how to take the next steps after a diagnosis to battling with insurance companies to getting patients in quickly for a test or a second opinion.—
Cindy Krischer Goodman,
Miami Herald,
9 Apr. 2026
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Nigeria, which is Africa’s most populous country, is battling a complex security crisis, especially in the north where there is a decade-long insurgency and several armed groups who kidnap for ransom.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Apr. 2026
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