potential competitor

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The two species are potential competitors, but their diet competition may be reduced by their large difference in body size and somewhat different ecological niches.
This piece of evidence, at the least, demonstrates that there are potential competitors for the concept of internalization.
The possibility that parasites alter their use of resources when co-occurring with potential competitors also renders numerical responses less likely.
This was an unlikely outcome: the pro-liberalisation coalition of industry consumers and potential competitors remained weaker than the incumbent utilities, and most governments remained sceptical.
The essential notion behind a capture account is that existing or large producers are able to design regulation to function as an entry barrier against smaller or potential competitors.
From a processing point of view, the choice of a subject antecedent implies a minimal cost, and is therefore preferred unless there are cues that point towards other potential competitors.
Public policy was not compromised so long as potential competitors were free to enter the market and consumers were not compelled to buy, as in the case of life's necessities.
Struggles over succession inevitably drew in these people as potential competitors for traditional office and gave the politics of the colonial period a particularly parochial quality.
Yet, physicians were potential competitors.
Potential competitors have turned their attention somewhere else.
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