Thesaurus results for COMPETES

competes

verb

Definition of competes next

present tense third-person singular of compete

as in contends

to engage in a contest prizefighters competing for the world heavyweight championship

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Recent Examples of competes Quilting competes with my writing—there are, after all, only so many hours in a day—but like reading it also complements it. —

Literary Hub, 19 May 2026 Ryan Rollins was one of the only bright spots from Milwaukee’s season, providing great value as a playmaker and shooter who competes defensively and has a nose for the ball. —

Law Murray, New York Times, 18 May 2026 Each mandate competes for the same pool of attorneys and economists. —

Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026 Musk, who helped bankroll OpenAI, launched a rival for-profit AI company in 2023 called xAI, which built a chatbot that competes with ChatGPT. —

Max Zahn, ABC News, 18 May 2026 There's nothing that competes with it. —

Will Croxton, CBS News, 17 May 2026 Josh Heuston brings a different iteration of Justin Kohl to life in Season 1 of the Prime Video adaptation of Elle Kennedy’s Off Campus series, compared to the football player who competes with Garrett Graham (Belmont Cameli) for Hannah Wells’ (Ella Bright) heart. —

Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 15 May 2026 While hyperscalers make their own in-house ASICs, Cerebras more closely competes with firms that specialize in making them for others. —

Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 15 May 2026 The lawyers said that, following the end of her five-year noncompete with Lauder, Malone is allowed to engage in a business that competes with Jo Malone London, and to use her name to identify herself when doing so. —

Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 7 May 2026

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The firm contends that slow-moving, lightweight drones offer superior safety, efficiency, and practicality for last-mile deliveries.

— Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 14 May 2026
The Next Level Apparel partner also contends that ongoing testing programs are more effective at catching substitution risks as supply chains shift over time, particularly compared with periodic audits or one-time reviews.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 14 May 2026