competitively
Americanadverb
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as a participant in an organized league, match, or competition.
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in a way that tends to perceive any activity as a competition against rivals.
Example Sentences
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While the buying frenzy of recent years in the United States has cooled, competitively priced homes still generally sell within a reasonable time frame.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026
Stokes has not played competitively since the end of England's 4-1 Ashes defeat in January.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Apple is pricing its new entry-level iPhone 17e and MacBook Neo competitively to gain market share amid rising memory costs, say analysts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
Along with pricing Trainium chips competitively, AWS is out to make reliability a selling point since data centers need to operate non-stop for long stretches at a time.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
“Let’s sit. Sitting is great. Everyone likes sitting, even active people. Do you run competitively or something? Because you were hauling ass across the parking lot. I think you outran a Tesla at one point.”
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
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