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Recent Examples of competition Her biggest competition will be Domenica Dee and Michelle Lesco, the latter of whom snapped Sudo’s win streak in 2021. Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2025 This year, Ryan Reynolds also got in on the action, starring in an ad that aired multiple times during the Nathan’s competition on ESPN2. Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 4 July 2025 In Squid Game, Lee portrays Gyeong-seok (Player 246), a devoted father who joins the brutal competition to protect his family at all costs. EW.com, 4 July 2025 As for the women's competition this year, Miki Sudo scored her 11th Nathan's Famous title after downing 33 franks — falling below her 2024 record of 51. Logan Holland, People.com, 4 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for competition
Recent Examples of Synonyms for competition
Noun
  • The experience allows guests to partake in their own personal tournament and enjoy the beautiful London weather.
    Rachel Dube, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • The tournament consists of single-elimination knockout rounds where players will compete in a maximum of four rounds before advancing to the quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final championship.
    Caroline Blair, People.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • The season had plenty of surprises besides Oscar-winning actresses, too — most notably the inclusion of an innocent newborn infant as a contestant in the game, an upping of the show’s anti-capitalist moral stakes to their logical extreme.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025
  • Cynthia is now the only contestant to have made the semifinals without winning a challenge.
    Chris Feil, Vulture, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • There’s been a lot of change in college football in recent years, but rivalries still form the foundation of the sport for so many fans.
    The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 7 July 2025
  • Adding an element of controversy to what’s been an unusually friendly title rivalry, Piastri even suggested that if McLaren thought the call was unfair, the team could ask him and Norris to swap places to cancel the effect of the penalty.
    James Ellingworth, Denver Post, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • The event will begin the evening of Sept. 8 with an industry dinner and cocktail.
    Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 8 July 2025
  • The first of these alerts went out shortly after 1 a.m., and local officials began posting about the event on Facebook at around 5 a.m.
    New York Times, New York Times, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • There are other competitors in this field, including Boston Dynamics.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • What really sets Four Seasons apart from many of its competitors in the Boise area is a focus on dishes from Northern China.
    Michael Deeds July 7, Idaho Statesman, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Potter faces a battle to restore optimism among the fanbase.
    Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 7 July 2025
  • His 2014 film The Grave tells the story of a man who hears about the discovery of a mass grave and escapes from a nursing home to confront his past on the site of the Battle of the Ebro, the longest and largest battle of the Spanish Civil War.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • The Red Sox put the game out of reach in the bottom of the eighth on solo homers by Ceddanne Rafaela and Romy Gonzalez.
    Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 8 July 2025
  • The Padres began spring training believing Darvish would join Michael King and Dylan Cease atop a rotation that could help win plentiful games in the regular season and successfully navigate postseason series.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • This year, the race feels far less assured for far fewer contenders.
    EW.com, EW.com, 7 July 2025
  • That cannot keep happening if the Packers are going to be a legitimate Super Bowl contender.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 July 2025

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“Competition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/competition. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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