Compete
Join
Join verb - To be adjacent to.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Join twenty-two teens and their dark journey throughout eight weeks as they compete for life itself.
Source: Fanfic Recs / Total Drama -
There's The Irish Question of whether Northern Ireland should join up with Ireland like in Rugby Football or compete separately as they do in association football.
Source: Series / Eurovision Song Contest - Comes back to bite them once when Schlock tries to join a circus as part of an undercover operation only to find out that the circus had amorphs who are now all out of work because none of them can compete with what his cartoon alter-ego can do.
Source: Who Would Want to Watch Us?
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Join and Compete. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/compete/join
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