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were rival
noun
A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.
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Some of the dead were rival gang members.
Antara did not say if the opponents in the clashes were rival Christians and Muslims.
To assess rival burgers as if they were rival brasseries on the Left Bank.
In Belgrade and other Serbian cities there were rival rallies and concerts.
It was unclear who the attackers were, he added, but he was confident that they were rival militias.
But there were rival factions, evidently, because the IS exhibits completely different personalities depending on the model.
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We were rivals then.
UNTIL recently, they were rivals.
In the beginning they were rivals.
Men who were rivals last week are now colleagues.
There were rivals, of course.
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