Thesaurus results for VIES

vies

verb

present tense third-person singular of vie

as in competes

to engage in a contest vied with his colleagues for the coveted promotion

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Recent Examples of vies Polls promise the race will be fiercely competitive, as Talarico vies to become the first Democrat to win statewide in Texas in three decades. — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 27 May 2026 American Coco Gauff seeks to defend her title as the women’s singles champion, while Jannik Sinner of Italy vies for his first French Open men’s singles title. — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 26 May 2026 This week’s announcement comes as Lamont vies for a third term as governor and the state faces a severe lack of housing that’s affordable and available to people with low incomes. — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 4 Apr. 2026 Home Depot’s next acquisition would add critical building systems to its wholesale network as the company vies for more business from professional contractors. — Amy Wenk, AJC.com, 24 Mar. 2026 Texas routinely vies with Ohio State, Michigan and Alabama to be the nation’s biggest-spending schools on athletics. — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 22 Jan. 2026 Different liberal factions are choosing sides in a May race primary that will decide who vies for the toss-up seat. — Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025 The move also comes as the United States vies with China in the race to dominate the artificial intelligence industry. — Rob Wile, NBC news, 22 Aug. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for vies

Verb

Cohere, which competes with Anthropic and OpenAI in enterprise sales, has made government contracts a focus.

— Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 14 July 2026
But as the storied team competes for its fourth World Cup title this year, there’s a dark cloud hanging over its finances.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026

Definition of competes

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The 12-state coalition, however, contends that the opposite is true.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 13 July 2026
The Paramount response, via a two-page press release, followed the filing of the lawsuit, which contends that the merger will create an anticompetitive entity controlling too much of the pay-TV and movie studio sectors.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 13 July 2026