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It has rivalled US tech dominance with the chatbot DeepSeek and BYD, which beat Tesla last year to become the world's largest EV maker.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2025

Still, to this day, no-one has rivalled him vocally.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2015

The director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, Prof Peter Neumann, said Islamic State "has rivalled - if not replaced - al-Qaeda as the leader of global jihadism".

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2014

Two reasons for everyone’s astonishment: Scarlett was neither from South Korea, where StarCraft has rivalled baseball in popularity, nor a young man, like all the other top players.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2014

Possibly this or that great man de l'Institut has rivalled them.

From Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century by Sombart, Werner