compete
verb (used without object)
to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in business.
has competed
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present perfectof compete (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Pogacar has won six of the seven World Tour races he has competed in this year, finishing second at Paris-Roubaix in April in a dramatic dash to the line with Belgium's Wout van Aert.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
"She inspired me so much. I looked up to her since I was little," said Torrecampo, who has competed in the Philippine National Games, and in tournaments in Cambodia and Sri Lanka.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
At 18, he scored his first World Cup goal in 2006 and has competed in every World Cup since.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Of the nine Belmont horses, only Vitruvian Man has competed in anything but a maiden or stakes race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
Antony Watteau has competed for what is called the Prix de Rome, desiring greatly to profit by the grand establishment founded at Rome by King Lewis the Fourteenth, for the encouragement of French artists.
From Imaginary Portraits by Walter Pater
