Definition of "competing" []

• Being in the state of competition (often unintentionally) (adjective)
• Present participle of compete. (verb)

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• "At that occasion they put forward what he described as competing proposals in reaction to the Langa Commission findings on the May 23 election."
• "These excitements struggle for the possession of an outlet in action, and this is what we call competing desires, struggle against temptation, etc."
• "Originating in competing visions of a reunited British America, unfolding in bursts of violence among people who mainly spoke the same language and honored the same history, the War of 1812 succeeded only in institutionalizing the constitutional crisis that had originally precipitated the American Revolution."