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808 examples of Rival in a sentence

Some of these churches and mosques are world-class, with excellent audio-visual systems, wonderful meeting spaces, and they organize events that rival international concerts.
Maybe he'll badmouth his chief rival to the coach.
It could create a landscape of rival warlords undermining rule of law and civil society.
It's exotic, it's alien, but yet strangely Earth-like, and having Earth-like geological formations and a tremendous geographical diversity, and is a fascinating world whose only rival in the solar system for complexity and richness is the Earth itself.
Once, Finn tore up a great clump of land and heaved it at his rival, but it fell short of reaching land.
She told him that this was Finn’s favorite bread, sowing a seed of doubt in Benandonner’s mind that he was any match for his rival.
And during that time, since I've left university, these numbers have got bigger and bigger, each one dwarfing the last, until along came this man, Dr. Curtis Cooper, who a few years ago held the record for the largest ever prime, only to see it snatched away by a rival university.
I fiddled with my rival's grades, just a little, just demoted some of those A's.
Home and community are forces that rival even radiation.
CA: Well, speaking of Warren Buffett, something really amazing happened in 2006, when somehow your only real rival for richest person in America suddenly turned around and agreed to give 80 percent of his fortune to your foundation.
Scott and his rival Sir Ernest Shackleton, over the space of a decade, both led expeditions battling to become the first to reach the South Pole, to chart and map the interior of Antarctica, a place we knew less about, at the time, than the surface of the moon, because we could see the moon through telescopes.
This is essential to overcome our speechlessness and the separation provoked by rival political forces.
A heartless hind is a coward, and calling someone that in front of his own men, and the rival family, means there's going to be a fight.
They viewed the people they sold not as fellow Africans but criminals, debtors, or prisoners of war from rival tribes.
As France's main rival, Britain had resisted revolutionary ideas and retained its traditional units.
After a rival author attempted to cash in on a fake follow-up, Cervantes released the official sequel in response.
They had a guide behind the rival team's goal to know where to kick the ball.
I soon witnessed boys like them killing one another in conflicts between rival groups.
But due to confirmation bias, we never consider the rival theories, because we're so protective of our own pet theory.
Because it could still be consistent with rival theories.
Because this is still consistent with rival theories.
And that's the third example of confirmation bias: accepting data as evidence, even if it's consistent with rival theories.
It would rule out the rival theories, but not rule out yours.
But that's also consistent with the rival theory.
To really nail down a result, to rule out those rival theories, and to distinguish correlation from causation.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, during the election campaign, had the campaign airplane of his rival Barry Goldwater bugged as part of his effort to win that election.
But in 1909, amidst his preparations, news came that the American explorers Frederick Cook and Robert Peary had staked rival claims to the achievement.
A rival lab has sabotaged your code so that all the zeros at the end of your results got cut off.
We have these 193 nation-states, but we have easily as many cities that are beginning to rival them in power and influence.
And out of their extraordinary work rose a temple to rival the two cathedrals that exist in the town, one Catholic and one Protestant.
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