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To want the same thing as someone else, but louder.
means To strive against others for a prize, position, or advantage that only some can have.
from From Latin competere, to strive together — the same root that, oddly, also gave us competent, suggesting rivalry and skill were always tangled.
Shared rootTwins with competent and competitor in Latin.
Meaning flipCompetere first meant to coincide, not clash.
Late bloomerThe rivalry sense surged in 1600s English.