Sentence examples for make a rival from inspiring English sources

"make a rival" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to create or cause someone to become a competitor or opponent. Example: The two companies had been friends for years, but when one of them started selling a similar product, it made a rival out of the other.

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Make a rival suffer, that is the pay TV way".

Competitors are not above spreading rancid grease around to make a rival look bad.

Yet John C. Malone, the pay-television magnate behind Liberty Global, must be thinking hard about whether he can afford to make a rival approach.

Sainsbury's has tabled a £1.4bn takeover of Home Retail Group after South African retail group Steinhoff ditched plans to make a rival bid for the Argos owner.

Clark had been brought on board to replace Andy Wilman, who has joined old school friend Clarkson to make a rival motoring show for Amazon Prime.

See articleThe end of the affair?EMI recommended that shareholders accept a buy-out offer from Terra Firma Capital Partners after Warner Music decided not to make a rival bid.

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Last month, SS&C made a rival £572 million offer for GlobeOp, which is based in London.

He indicated in February that he wasn't planning on making a rival bid.

The trouble is, Dish's earnings flop makes a rival bid from SoftBank look even more appealing.

Meanwhile, the BBC made a rival bid to host a live debate in Inverness on 12 August, hosted by James Cook.

It makes a rival operating system, Android, it buys up patents and it goes to court to protect them.

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