Collocations withrivalry
These are words often used in combination withrivalry.
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bitter rivalry
Their celebrated friendship, which later became a bitter rivalry, remains inseparable from the conceptual foundations of the anatomical sciences, including comparative anatomy and paleontology.
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ethnic rivalry
The ending of the superpower stand-off, however, has aggravated conditions that contribute to ethnic rivalry and tension.
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fierce rivalry
On the other side you have fierce rivalry for place and power, which is made more intense when constitutional changes are under review or have recently been inaugurated.
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friendly rivalry
At one level this could be understood as friendly rivalry, or masculine showing off, and as such a simple reproduction of male activities elsewhere.
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great rivalry
You have two sets of officials, hardly ever on speaking terms, with great rivalry between them.
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intense rivalry
Independence and fragmentation induced intense rivalry between the six towns.
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old rivalry
It is wrong to think of that old rivalry between producer and consumer.
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personal rivalry
Thinking only of their personal rivalry, they abandoned the race, to the approbation of all sportsmen.
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rivalry game
He is encouraged — indeed, in some instances, coerced — to continue to play the old-fashioned inter-service rivalry game.
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tribal rivalry
The strains and stresses of tribal rivalry will then become a real threat to the unity of the nation.
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