Sentence examples for is a direct competitor from inspiring English sources

Siemens is a direct competitor of General Electric.

Neither one, however, is a direct competitor to the Windows operating system.

An expansion of iCloud, Drive is a direct competitor to services like Dropbox, letting users share files and folders directly in Finder, the file manager on Apple's computers.

Harris's suit also includes an antitrust complaint against AOL, given that its own online market-research company, Digital Marketing Systems, is a direct competitor to Harris.

De Leon's plan is a direct competitor to this money management model, and – this must worry Wall Street – he may have the better argument.

And last week, Dell said it was loading Corel's WordPerfect Office on some of its PC lines, an offering that is a direct competitor to Microsoft Office software.

Seeing as Silverlight was a direct competitor to Flash, it is suddenly left not looking too clever.

Ms. Povich, in fact, used to sell her lobsters to Mr. Sargent, even though he was a direct competitor.

In late July, Facebook launched the beta version of Questions, a question-and-answer product that seems to be a direct competitor of Quora.

"If we were going to be a direct competitor to theaters," she added, "we'd sell all day-of performances at full price.

Ms. Lebenthal, who said she was in her late 20s when she met Ms. Siebert, has recently been a "direct competitor" of Ms. Siebert's firm.