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Boehringer’s aspirations to develop a challenger are similar to Amgen, Pfizer and Roche Holding, all of which are jockeying to compete with new experimental drugs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

"There are people who are jockeying for position and people who feel like they might have done enough, but then get a call to say they are not in the team and that is tough."

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025

His rivals know he's not going to do that so the main purpose of those who are at least polling in double digits occasionally are jockeying for second place just in case he keels over.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2023

The dinner was to discuss the Western Balkans’ future in the EU, which many of the region’s countries have already joined and the rest are jockeying to enter.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2023

He might grow tired of eating Irish dirt; he might pluck up spirit enough to tell these bullies who are jockeying him, and through him the British Empire, to go to the Divil.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John