competing ideas

collocation in English

meaningsofcompeteandidea

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compete
verb[I]
uk
/kəmˈpiːt/us
/kəmˈpiːt/
to try to be more successful than someone or ...
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idea
noun
uk
/aɪˈdɪə/us
/aɪˈdiː.ə/
a suggestion or plan for ...
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(Definition ofcompeteandideafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Like any market-based model, there were many competing ideas about these new methods and their basis.
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Initially, their rivalry centered on credit for discovery of fermentation and later grew to encompass competing ideas on microbiology, pathogenesis, and germ theory.
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Students, rather than evaluating the competing ideas, instead absorb the information given to them.
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He later withdrew his suggestion in the face of competing ideas.
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This can be thought of as mutual competing ideas within a firm whereas in the social case, it can be thought of as a firm learning from more successful firms.
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Understanding that cognitive dissonance works as a motivator towards states of affairs, the individual suffering the dissonance can often change their attitude, thus making the two competing ideas least dissonant.
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The book examines at how sharing is shaping our notions of an informed and engaged public, a media ecology of competing ideas, and a responsive political establishment.
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Averroes's concept of metaphysics will be investigated in the historical and philosophical context of competing ideas.
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