Synonyms of competes

competes

verb

present tense third-person singular of compete

as in contends

to engage in a contest

prizefighters competing for the world heavyweight championship

Synonyms & Similar Words

• contends
• races
• fights
• battles
• rivals
• vies
• plays
• engages
• works
• faces off
• challenges
• maneuvers
• jostles
• goes out
• jockeys
• trains
• tries out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of competes

Combining Instacart and DoorDash would create a larger company that better competes with those rivals. — Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026

Alabama State, located in Montgomery, Alabama, competes in NCAA Division I as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference. — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026

Making friends, maintaining healthy relationships and working through conflicts requires practice, and some of that practice time now competes with communication mediated by screens. — Roxanne Prichard, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026

The software maker competes with major rivals such as Google and Amazon for customers and has an AI-powered assistant called Copilot. — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026

Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. — Emma Roth, The Verge, 22 Oct. 2026

Sports rights are key as Netflix competes for subscribers and advertising with rivals from DAZN to Amazon, Apple and YouTube. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2026

When Patagonia's founder moved the company into a purpose trust in 2022, such extraction became impossible by design; Bosch has been majority-owned by a foundation for decades and competes ferociously. — Christopher Marquis, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

In the business-laptop space, however, the Pro 7 competes less on value than on its combination of build quality, performance, and battery life. — Charles Jefferies, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026