Contend
Contend verb - To engage in a contest.
Usage example: two traditional rivals contending for the championship
Common collocations
| vehicle | contend vehicle | race vehicle |
Both words in one sentence
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Shout-Out: The space racers operate more-or-less the same as pod racers in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace During the future race, Dipper and Mabel have to contend with Toby Determined as Racer T.
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Almost all the plant and animal life see the humans as food, there's also a hostile race of hive-insect humanoids to deal with and to top it off there are Eldritch Abominations to contend with too.
Source: Death World -
As well as an ongoing war with each other, the two factions must contend with evil Balaur, a race created to protect and watch over the world, but now...not so much.
Source: Video Game / Aion
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Race and Contend. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/contend/race
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