rival

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Competing and contending (non-sporting)
as a dare
be one up on someoneidiom
cat
catchup
challenge someone to something/do something
dare
give someone/something a run for their moneyidiom
go in for something
go toe to toeidiom
hyper-competitive
in competition with someone/something
jungle
pit
sharp elbowsidiom
sharp-elbowed
sharpen (something) up
sharpen your elbowsidiom
showing
snap
toe

contender | American Dictionary

contender
noun[ C ]
us/kənˈten·dər/
someone who is qualified to compete to win something or to achieve a position of leadership: :
He is a top contender for Senate majority leader.

Examples of contender

contender
This principle is important, because it excludes some candidates as contenders for the status of the sympathetic base.
These successful revisions show that the activation-synthesis model is still the main contender among models seeking to show how dreams are generated.
When a word contains more than one contender for heaviest syllable, the rightmost non-final candidate is stressed.
When this is done one contender immediately thrusts head and shoulders above the rest.
But at no point do the contenders accept its definition as grounded in some detectable mistake, one that can be corrected through standard problem-solving methods.
But at no point do the contenders accept its definition as grounded in some mistake.
However, when the variance is large, the action of the contender must be the opposite to the action of the challenger.
The expansion of the problematic includes the questioning by the contenders of their adversaries' factual, methodological, and conceptual presuppositions.
This book is a serious contender to be the textbook of choice for the undergraduate students.
Moreover, there is a long tradition of populist or technocratic presidential contenders who, despite losing, attracted substantial popular support.
The interest of the collection at hand is that the main contenders in this interpretative battlefield are present.
Outside of engineering, specialists in medicine or law would be strong contenders to use the approach.
Interpretations are perceived as embedding presumptions that bias the debate - a fact that contenders naturally want to take advantage of.
Each contender resorts at least on some occasion to the entire gamut of stratagems available.
Nevertheless, however devious, the stratagems chosen by a contender must at least bear the appearance of conformity with the implicit norms of the argumentative game.
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Collocations withcontender

contender

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championship contender
Despite the moderate success of team during these years, some alumni had grown accustomed to the programs' stature as a perennial national championshipcontender.
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