competes

present tense third-person singular of compete
as in contends
to engage in a contest prizefighters competing for the world heavyweight championship

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Recent Examples of competes Google, whose Gemini chatbot competes with ChatGPT, has been slower to sign such deals. Reuters, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025 Bill Belichick camped the team at Palm Beach Atlantic University, a private Christian school that competes at the Division II level. Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025 The following year, the group made its first acquisition by buying a controlling stake in FC Como Women, which competes in Italy’s top-tier women’s soccer league, Serie A Femminile. Asli Pelit, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025 The excitement is mostly around cloud infrastructure, where Oracle competes with Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Ari Levy, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025 The Black Widow star's Eleanor The Great, which stars 95-year-old June Squibb, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival back in May, but competes for the coveted TIFF People's Choice Award this year against California Schemin'. Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2025 Pacific Coast Harmony also competes against other groups in the region and most recently successfully defended its Eastern Division Chorus title in the Barbershop Harmony Society’s Far Western District. Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025 Sara Morganti is the Olympic para-dressage champion who competes wearing the Loro Piana uniform as part of the Loro Piana Paradressage Team. Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025 Aston Martin has, as noted, pushed its cars decidedly upmarket, and this pinnacle offering now competes, in price and power, directly with vehicles such as the $504,000 Ferrari 12Cilindri Spider while coming in well above the Bentley Continental GTC, which starts at $336,000. Brett Berk, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for competes
Verb
  • The firings, the lawsuit contends, gutted the bureau of vital expertise.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Parker contends that a constellation of factors, including genetics, inflammation, and stress, enable acetaminophen to trigger autism in certain children.
    Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And as the country races toward an election, politics and contemporary issues will also be front and center.
    Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
  • As the world races to decarbonize, clean energy storage is becoming the central challenge.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • As always, secrets emerge, fights ensue, and Madea makes a speech to bring everyone back together.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
  • As the immune system fights the infection, the tissues in the urinary tract become inflamed.
    Mark Gurarie, Health, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Competes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/competes. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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