Crossword-Solution: COMPETES 8 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Our own founder leaves and builds a product that directly competes with his own invention." They all stared at him, waiting.

This excess, not being able to earn so much as when capital was less plentiful, competes for safe investments and forces down the interest rate on all capital.

Spend twenty-five of your forty years, as Luther Dallas did, in this perennial gloom, and your soul--that which enjoys, aspires, competes--will be drugged as deep as if you had quaffed the cup of oblivion.

The dogs that get a blue ribbon--that's first prize--in these classes all have to appear in what is called the 'Winners Class.' Then the dog that gets 'Winner's'--the dog that gets first prize in this 'Winners' Class'--competes for best dog of his breed in the show.

Python's relationship with Perl is rather like the BSD community's relationship to Linux - it's the smaller party in a (usually friendly) rivalry, but the average quality of its developers is generally conceded to be rather higher than in the larger community it competes with.