competitive

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Recent Examples of competitive Perhaps playing on a competitive team could help his batting average as well. Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025 Technologies like these could give U.S. companies a competitive advantage while lowering emissions. Andres Clarens, The Conversation, 23 June 2025 The company’s ability to blend local storytelling with commercial sensibilities has proven particularly effective in the competitive Southeast Asian market. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 June 2025 Underlying all of these is the desire to become more resilient, agile, and competitive, ensuring sustainability in a dynamic business environment. Forbes.com, 12 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for competitive
Recent Examples of Synonyms for competitive
Adjective
  • Sports are not just about competing but also relations.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • Leaders from both nations face mounting public pressure to show strength and seek revenge, and the heated rhetoric and competing claims could be a response to that pressure.
    Sheikh Saaliq, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • Clark said locally, at San Dimas’ Via Verde Country Club and Pomona’s Mountain Meadows Golf Course, Spaun is remembered as a diligent kid who put in a lot of time working on his game.
    Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 16 June 2025
  • The only way to avoid False Dividend Stocks is with diligent fundamental research on cash flows.
    David Trainer, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
Adjective
  • Breyer had 1,000 Zoom viewers last week, the maximum the software can hold, showing that the public is hungry to see and hear what is happening inside of the public courts.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 17 June 2025
  • In an entertainment world no longer dominated by linear TV, every league is hungry to become the center of conversations du jour.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • But even in Alberta, a province that has favored development, the legacy policies are still likely not aggressive enough to meet the moment.
    Mark Le Dain, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
  • Most recently the administration asked the Supreme Court to clear the way for downsizing the federal workforce despite multiple court rulings that congressional approval is needed to make such aggressive reductions.
    Ragan Whitlock, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2025
Adjective
  • The slowdown of opportunities for Israeli creatives and artists is not always politically motivated.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 June 2025
  • The incident comes on the heels of what officials called politically motivated shootings last week in which Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in their home and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were wounded.
    Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • Soon, such models may be able to account for the role played by environmental exposures and chance—offering a more dynamic, individualized map of risk.
    Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
  • Organizations that master this dynamic gain more than smoother project workflows.
    ESMT Berlin, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025

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“Competitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/competitive. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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