How to Use in competition with in a Sentence

in competition with

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  • The Navy sees itself in competition with the Chinese Navy in a race to get to ship hulls to sea.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Our work is not set against our life, and our life is not in competition with our work.
    David L. Bahnsen, National Review, 5 Feb. 2024
  • That would put it in competition with cars built by Rolls-Royce and Bentley.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 25 July 2022
  • The most common answer is that Tech stocks, like all stocks, are in competition with bond yields.
    Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
  • In the long run, European defense needs will be in competition with Asian ones.
    Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2023
  • The United States is in competition with China—that is a fact and will remain so for much of this century.
    Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2019
  • It was thought that the two missions were in competition with each other, as well as with two other missions.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • Miller picked out his candidate back in June and cut back other pumpkins in competition with it.
    Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Dancers, even as teens, often are in competition with one another for an instructor’s praise, for a spot on the front line at recitals, for a solo.
    Matt Kempner, ajc, 22 June 2023
  • On the other hand, Cashman figures to be in competition with the Mets for bullpen help but now also may have to be in the market for corner infielders.
    Bill Madden, Hartford Courant, 1 July 2024
  • Marine and Kate of Birds of Paradise could even learn a thing or two from the pair of actresses that play them about finding the friendlier aspects of being in competition with a peer.
    Marcus Jones, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Hart had been in competition with Justise Winslow and Nassir Little.
    oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2022
  • That could put it in competition with UNM, where extremely preterm babies can bring in more than $2 million per infant.
    Bryant Furlow, ProPublica, 30 Mar. 2021
  • What the researchers found is that the boys immediately wanted to engage in competition with the other camp.
    How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
  • One spot ahead of Matos, who’s fighting for the fifth outfield spot, was Ahmed, ostensibly in competition with top prospect Marco Luciano.
    Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • At the moment, the presidential race has hardly begun; Trump and Biden are not yet in competition with one another.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Districts might be in competition with each other to find armed officers.
    Sonia Rao, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • However, the three quarterbacks in competition with Mond have never taken a snap in an NFL game either.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Arlington may have to hire contractors to make some of the fixes, which will put the district in competition with many other Texas residents for services.
    Emily Donaldson, Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2021
  • When fully built out, local leaders have promised, Buckeye will hold some 1.5 million people, which would put it in competition with Phoenix as Arizona’s largest city.
    Kyle Paoletta, The New Republic, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Rather than dallying with base sizes, cut the season in half, putting it directly in competition with basketball and hockey.
    Ari David Blaff, National Review, 11 July 2021
  • Evers will be in competition with returner Joe Fagnano and freshman Cole Welliver for the starting job.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 22 May 2024
  • Being able to shave $500 off of the list price puts this PC in competition with significantly less powerful machines.
    K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Baker compares the show to a compliment rather than an adaptation of the original, saying how neither feels in competition with the other.
    Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Hendrix appears to be in competition with right-hander Carlos Vargas for the other bullpen spot still up for grabs, assuming right-hander Cole Sulser already has a job secured.
    Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Of course, not everyone will find so much to admire, especially when that sparse grass is coveted by cattle on the public range and by desert bighorn sheep, to name just two species in competition with Arizona’s burros.
    Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 22 Jan. 2024
  • If a city had two hospitals in competition with each other and Hospital A opened an urgent care clinic, Hospital B would follow suit.
    Matt Dickson, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Those mutations can affect how well the germ cells grow and produce successful eggs or sperm, which puts them in competition with respect to natural selection.
    Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Modeling them as pack animals might change the apparent scavenging success rates of our own ancestors when in competition with the canids.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Earlier this week the Times announced Wordle Golf, a competitive expansion of the game meant to encourage users to play Wordle in competition with their family and friends.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023

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