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Example sentences for: rivalry

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Literature comes from people's obsession with universal life-and-death themes such as kinship, danger, and rivalry.
Perhaps the polar bodies function to somehow enforce some maternal or family interest, nipping in the bud some sibling rivalry that would otherwise suppress the family's fitness.
Besides the White Housers, the two other leading cliques are the Jocks and the Poms, who have a friendly rivalry about which group is more important.
USAT says that according to the NEA, the rivalry between the unions cost $100 million between 1973 and 1992.
Then we gradually sank into bureaucratic rivalry and sparring--into incivility.