competing with
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Examples
Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man's mode of transport.
The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.
Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.
It is not a matter of competing with someone else. Essentially, it is accepting our own special abilities as special – and then developing them.
The magpie is competing with the nightingale!