Sentence examples for almost competitive from inspiring English sources

There was something almost competitive about her resilience after Frances's death: My mother chose to die.

Nihilism, taken to an extreme that feels almost competitive, has become its own form of braggadocio.

"Wind and solar are big kids and almost competitive on their own already, but the advanced fossil and small nuclear are still years away".

The women compare sorrows in an almost competitive way--Ida's great grandmother saw her sister being scalped, but she did not lose courage.

In experiments with a small number of nodes, we achieved about 10% of the performance efficiency (Terai et al. 2014; Yashiro et al. 2016b), which is almost competitive with that of the state-of-the-art weather and climate models.

"That's a little bit of a surprise, they seem to have been the team who have been almost competitive but not quite there, but here they seem to be very competitive".

This is almost certainly the most competitive category: all five nominees have won Oscars before, and there is no consensus choice.

The polls also show that on the environment, health, protecting Social Security and even economic stewardship, Mr. Gore's standing is stronger than that of Mr. Bush, and the vice president is especially likely to use these issues to his advantage in the most competitive states, almost all in the mid-Atlantic, upper South and Middle West regions.

While federal grants are a main source of financial aid, they remain the most competitive of almost all funding systems.

He had a right to enjoy himself: it turned out to be the most competitive game in almost a month.

"There have been some very tough calls to get boats into the A Finals but we know that tomorrow's finals will almost certainly be the most competitive that we have ever had a GB Rowing Team Senior Trials".