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  • There was much pushing and shoving as the meerkats behind vied to reach the pond's edge.†  (source)
    vied = competed
  • We vied for our father's attention, but we knew our sister, Pesza, was really his favorite.†  (source)
  • I feel like there's always a third person vying for your attention.†  (source)
    vying = competing
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  • Vie got to sit in the cafeteria all afternoon and play games with erasers on our heads.†  (source)
    Vie = compete
  • You could customize the game as long as you used real societies and tribes, and for a while Crake and Jimmy vied with each other to see who could come up with the most obscure pairing.†  (source)
    vied = competed
  • In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to earn a few coins to feed their families by selling their bodies.†  (source)
    vying = competing
  • In the morning, smoke vies with the shifting curtains of mist to hide the sky.†  (source)
    vies = competes
  • He waits for Neumann Two to come around the truck and say something crass, to spoil it, but he doesn't, and neither does Bernd, maybe they don't see her at all, maybe this one pure thing will escape their defilement, and the girl sings as she swings, a high song that Werner recognizes, a counting song that girls jumping rope in the alley behind Children's House used to sing, Eins, zwei, Polizei, drei, vier, Offizier, and how he would like to join her, push her higher and higher, singfiinf; sechs, alte Hex, sieben, acht, gute Nacht!†  (source)
    vier = someone who competes
  • Peter and I had a fight via video chat this morning (in case Josh has noticed I haven't left the house all weekend), and we broke up, and I'm devastated about the whole thing, because I've been in constant love with Peter Kavinsky since the seventh grade, but c'est la vie.†  (source)
    vie = compete
  • Two figures, pearly-white as ghosts, fluid as smoke, unfurled themselves from the fragments of broken glass upon the floor and each began to speak; their voices vied with each other, so that only fragments of what they were saying could be heard over Malfoy and Bellatrix's shouts.†  (source)
    vied = competed
  • Rage and disgust fought in my throat, vying for the right to make me throw up.†  (source)
    vying = competing
  • No one vies in honor with him who holds authority from Zeus.†  (source)
    vies = competes
  • Sol farcast to New Earth and Renaissance Vector, to Fuji and TC2, to Deneb Drei and Deneb Vier, but everywhere the Shrike temples were closed to him.†  (source)
    Vier = someone who competes
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  • I counted them in German as I fell—eins, zwei, drei, vier, fuenf— Thoom!  (source)
    vier = German for "four"
  • Vier.  (source)
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