How to pronounce compete

Listen to compete in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.

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“compete” in real sentences

1000+ clips in the index · 784 American · 640 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.

  1. you're if you were gonna compete with Amazon or compete with Google or compete with eBay

    FTC · watch from 11:02 · hear it here

  2. operations compete and and to compete effectively on a global stage.

    The Scottish Parliament · watch from 25:38 · hear it here

  3. to compete in that environment.

    NSF · watch from 15:03 · hear it here

  4. might compete for your attention.

    Dept of Justice · watch from 12:06 · hear it here

Why real speech

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