Examples of archrival in a Sentence
In baseball, the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees are archrivals.
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California’s recovery from the devastating economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has been sluggish at best, trailing what’s happening in the nation as a whole and in the state’s archrivals, such as Texas and Florida.
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Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
As the top seed in the Big Ten Tournament hosted by Ohio State, Johns Hopkins will meet No. 4 seed Michigan (8-6) in the first of two semifinals Thursday for the right to advance to Saturday’s final, where a potential rematch with archrival and No. 2 seed Maryland (8-4) looms.
—Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 1 May 2024
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Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
As the top seed in the Big Ten Tournament hosted by Ohio State, Johns Hopkins will meet No. 4 seed Michigan (8-6) in the first of two semifinals Thursday for the right to advance to Saturday’s final, where a potential rematch with archrival and No. 2 seed Maryland (8-4) looms.
—Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 1 May 2024
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“Archrival.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/archrival. Accessed 2 Jun. 2024.
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archrival
noun
arch·ri·val
(ˌ)ärch-ˈrī-vəl 
: a principal rival
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