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champ, champion, comer, favorite, favourite, finalist, front-runner, king, outrival, outvie, runner-up, second best, semifinalist, street fighter, title-holder, world-beater

aaron burr, ahriman, buffer country, buffer state, burr, claw, counterattraction, fatah tanzim, fully fledged, gang fight, green-eyed, green-eyed monster, in full view, jealous, jealousy, mahabharata, mahabharatam, mahabharatum, outrival, outvie, overjealous, pitch, rumble, tanzim

compete, contend, contestant, vie

competitive, competitory, equal, match, touch