They are vying to win the championship for the third year in a row. vied with his colleagues for the coveted promotion
Recent Examples on the WebThe show continues tonight with 18 contests vying for Graziedei's love.—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 12 June 2024 Google’s Gemini chatbot is vying with ChatGPT for supremacy in the nascent market.—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 5 June 2024 Cruise aficionados looking to experience Alaska's capital, Juneau, may have to vie for permission to disembark and step foot on land, under a new agreement between the city and major cruise lines that sail there.—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 5 June 2024 And with much of Hamas’s organization in Gaza destroyed, other power structures, including clans and even criminal networks, could vie for control and undercut the group.—Audrey Kurth Cronin, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for vie
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English, short for envien, from Anglo-French envier to invite, call on, challenge, from Latin invitare to invite
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