competitiveness
Americannoun
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the tendency to perceive and approach activities in a competitive way.
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the quality of being useful or advantageous in competition with rivals.
Example Sentences
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One of Google’s big artificial-intelligence advantages is its custom chip business, and the company is stepping up the competitiveness of its products in a potential challenge to Nvidia.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026
In the 1980s, "we were told that free trade and globalisation were the most fantastic things, and in Brazil we were rather against them," owing to poor competitiveness, Lula said.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
There is now bipartisan consensus that open-source AI matters for American competitiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
"This will help power the UK's future economy, boost its global competitiveness and deliver on the country's national AI Opportunities Action Plan," the company wrote.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
Poaching was perfectly legal in the Book Scavenger world, and some users claimed the competitiveness made it more fun, but Emily didn’t like to do it.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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