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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Woods last played competitively March 4, 2025, in Jupiter’s final TGL match of that season.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
They started 2024 less competitively and fell backwards again.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 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
He said he never wanted to play basketball competitively, not ever again.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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