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competing

 adjective
     
com‧pet‧ing [only before noun]
1 competing stories, ideas etc cannot all be right or accepted:
Several people gave competing accounts of the accident.
a compromise between competing interests within the organization
competing claims
2

competing products/brands/companies etc

products etc that are trying to be more successful than each other
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