Compete and Try

Compete

Compete verb - To engage in a contest.

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Try and compete are semantically related in go up against in contest topic. In some cases you can use "Try" instead a verb "Compete".

Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.

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Compete and try are semantically related in attempt topic. Sometimes you can use "Compete" instead a verb "Try".

Nearby Words: tried, trying

control	compete control	try control
time	compete time	try time
way	compete way	try way
money	compete money	try money
Other words: game, nothing, times.

All of this was a deliberate effort by Hugh Harman to try and compete with Disney and their Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies shorts, in spite of having vastly inferior budgets.

Source: Useful Notes / Looney Tunes in the Thirties
Every new army book that was released ramped up their abilities to 11 to try and compete, but nothing was working and this began to leave older armies increasingly in the dust.

Source: Seasonal Rot
By the time Boeing rushed the 757 into production in 1981 to try and compete, Airbus had orders for 300 planes and an option for 200 more.

Source: It Will Never Catch On / Real Life

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