"exacerbate competition" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means to intensify or worsen competition. You can use it in situations where competition is already present and you want to convey that it is being made even more intense or difficult. Example: The company's decision to lower prices has only exacerbated competition among local businesses, leading to a fierce battle for customers.
In the closed land system, failure to prepare for this transition will exacerbate competition for arable land, degrade food security, and accelerate deforestation and biodiversity loss.
This must be expected to exacerbate competition for arable land, driving up food and energy prices and resulting in deforestation as biomass plantations replace natural and lightly-managed forests [30, 31].
This must be expected to exacerbate competition for arable land, driving up food and energy prices and resulting in deforestation as biomass plantations replace natural and lightly-managed forests [ 30, 31].
Climate change exacerbates competition for resources, and thus religious conflict; Christian missionaries are naïve, often willfully; Islamic leadership proves as corrupt as whatever it replaces.
And this, in turn, has exacerbated competition in Iraq, where Ankara supported Ayad Allawi's secular Iraqiya bloc in the run-up to the 2010 elections, poisoning relations with Maliki.
The arrival of additional space station visitors will likely exacerbate the competition for space and make the lives of astronauts and cosmonauts even more difficult.
Many other storied brands — Wedgwood, Spode, Rosenthal — have not been able to survive similar challenges, exacerbated by competition at cheaper cost from China.
The reorganization of the Roman Empire under Constantine the Great, with the adoption of a new faith, Christianity, and a new capital, Constantinople, exacerbated the competition with the Sāsānian empire and resulted in the spreading of Christianity into Egypt and Abyssinia and the encouraging of missionizing in Arabia itself.
Ineffective segmentation leads to event boundaries with similar feature values on either side of the boundary, exacerbating retrieval competition.
In addition to this, another factor that could have contributed to the strong drought response in Romania is the high basal area of the stands at this site (Table 1), which previous work has shown can modulate the impact of drought on forest growth by exacerbating belowground competition for water (Bottero et al. 2017).
