in competition with
idiom
: trying to succeed against
These products are in competition with each other.
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Popular on Variety Sunday’s show did air in competition with the NFL, though the Texans-Bears game was of a much lower profile than the playoff game that drew viewers away from the Emmys in January.
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Selome Hailu, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024
In 2015, the police department suspended Truong’s outside work permit to investigate whether his management and ownership of a private security firm presented a conflict of interest that put him in competition with his employer.
—Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2024
Yet the city council’s plan effectively assigned every member of a minority to a discrete community, defined each group’s needs as a whole, and set the various organizations in competition with one another for city resources.
—Kenan Malik, Foreign Affairs, 18 Feb. 2015
Fields is nominally in competition with Wilson to be the starting quarterback.
—John Perrotto, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2024
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Selome Hailu, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024
In 2015, the police department suspended Truong’s outside work permit to investigate whether his management and ownership of a private security firm presented a conflict of interest that put him in competition with his employer.
—Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2024
Yet the city council’s plan effectively assigned every member of a minority to a discrete community, defined each group’s needs as a whole, and set the various organizations in competition with one another for city resources.
—Kenan Malik, Foreign Affairs, 18 Feb. 2015
Fields is nominally in competition with Wilson to be the starting quarterback.
—John Perrotto, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2024
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“In competition with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20competition%20with. Accessed 29 Sep. 2024.
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