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Example sentences for: rival

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I mention the latter merely to make it clear that I am the author of a rival book which covers very similar ground, and that any comments I make must be judged against that background.
A rival Hapsburg claimant was supported by Austria and Britain, who saw a powerful Spanish-French alliance as a major threat.
Many papers around the world contrasted China's ambiguous response to last week's earthquake in Taiwan with Greece's no-strings-attached aid to rival Turkey after that nation's August temblor.
(Her chief primary rival, Al Checchi, may spend $50 million of his own money on the race.)
A period of regional civil wars and power struggles among rival warlords ensued.