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  • s  eager to surpass others

  • Columnist Joseph Kraft, an Administration "enemy" whose home telephone was once tapped, last week wrote of the "spirit of rivalrous competition and self-important narcissism now .
  • The threads that have stitched together an unwieldy federation of rivalrous ethnic groups since World War II have been unraveling for years.
  • The parts about their complicated, bitchy, rivalrous friendship are my favorite thing about The Magician's Book.
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  • UNC needs a space for free expression
    It has become a tradition, prior to the UNC game against N.C. State University, for UNC fans to travel to NCSU and paint their “free expression wall” to match the Carolina blue sky. This rivalrous act of free expression is harmless, entertaining and (so far as I know) legal.
    Feb. 3, 2014 - The Daily Tar Heel

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