There is a certain type of mentality that blokes have when it comes to music, which is using music as a tool of intellectual one-upmanship or obscure knowledge one-upmanship.
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Financial one-upmanship and having it all are the real prizes.
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Fauxcahontas already has, competing in a game of socialist one-upmanship.
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There is one-upmanship on the grandest scale; there are hangers-on.
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The oddness of those rituals rooted in disrespect, one-upmanship, and violence.
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"I realized that philosophy in academia was about one-upmanship," he said.
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On the Runway The endless game of fashion show one-upmanship continues.
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This is like one of those odd one-upmanship games between organizations.
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I want a musical where nutty excess and carefree one-upmanship rule.
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Was this a game of gulf one-upmanship, with more to follow?
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Each side's attempt to get even looks to the other like one-upmanship.
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The idea for the pregame distractions arose from a bit of one-upmanship.
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Who started this one-upmanship is not important and is probably not knowable.
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But Trump's rationale for the additional $100 billion seems to be pure one-upmanship.
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Turning the lifestyles experiment into a game of one-upmanship only turns people off.
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Modern science became locked in a war of one-upmanship with the microbial world.
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Terrible revelations were batted back and forth in a spirit of rueful one-upmanship.
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Graffiti's parameters developed with serious stakes, a kind of one-upmanship expressed through art.
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It may be time to call, well, time on this game of one-upmanship.
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Candidates, consultants and media advisers seem to understand this cycle of seemingly daily one-upmanship.
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It's hard to know how exactly how this game of one-upmanship will play out.
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"This whole electric-vehicle pickup truck discussion has become a game of one-upmanship," Krebs said.
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It creates a culture of one-upmanship, which will inevitably have a negative spin on it.
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Amid that backdrop, the childish one-upmanship between Trump and Pelosi feels deeply out of touch.
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She was aflame with snobbery and, as she grew older, addicted to bullying and one-upmanship.
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Some vignettes are anecdotal; others are tangles of passive aggression, racial hostility or repellent one-upmanship.
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There's fierce competition to attract talent with companies driven to one-upmanship on lavish compensation and perks.
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And if halting hypersonic one-upmanship between the US and Russia is a goal, prospects seem bleak.
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Some nationalist politicians see Thomas Cook's move as a form of one-upmanship against an old enemy.
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This is a game of European one-upmanship, played out against emergency relief tents in the Caribbean.
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This interfamily clash, fizzing with one-upmanship, is the highlight of the film, and that's the problem.
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Kai keeps tabs on other local young birders' tallies, but tries to avoid engaging in one-upmanship.
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Parry, riposte The stage for the next two weeks is set for more moments of one-upmanship.
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Through online videos, he taunts Kiya, dictating new lines of one-upmanship, and pushing her to cross them.
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CANADA's three main parties indulged in a curious game of one-upmanship during last year's general election campaign.
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Pretty quickly you also realized you could exploit and commercialize human one-upmanship — gotta catch em all friend lists!
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His customers might love the features born of the one-upmanship among carmakers, from infrared cameras to gestural controls.
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Not everyone wants to partake in games of witty one-upmanship (*raises hand*) or blatant innuendo (*puts hand down*).
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Military personnel in full regalia perform elaborate fast-paced marches and high kicks in a show of one-upmanship.
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And, at SXSW — a place already dedicated to corporate one-upmanship — every scooter company wants to be the scooter company.
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"We believe one-upmanship and controversies are counterproductive," French foreign affairs ministry spokesman Alexandre Giorgini said at a news briefing.
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Indeed, what was once a private intimate moment has become, in many cases, a game of social media one upmanship.
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Instead of the backbiting and one-upmanship in so many high-school movies, the students here are offer mutual support.
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ISIS promised to impose the most draconian restrictions on women, in a one-upmanship meant to outdo already zealous competitors.
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Little surprise, then, that both major parties compete in rhetorical one-upmanship to demonstrate toughness on terrorism and govern accordingly.
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The realization that this route to fame "works" can, in turn, produce more lethal events and foster one-upmanship among perpetrators.
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Much like in 2014, the list of "surprise" performances was so long that it felt like a one-man one-upmanship.
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The whole day is one contest after another, and it turns out that one-upmanship is how dudes have emotional conversations.
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In a show about white-collar acts of aggression and one-upmanship, the poker table becomes another arena for bloodless slaughter.
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Andolov's meeting with Taylor takes on a far different tone than the testosterone-soaked games of one-upmanship he'd played with Axe.
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"It was clear the main aim of the proposed detonation was a PR exercise and a show of one-upmanship," Reiffel said.
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THE Monaco Yacht Show, which ran from September 2473th to October 224st, is arguably the world's most extravagant game of one-upmanship.
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Then there's the one-upmanship of style, an awards' season tradition that finds celebs with super transformational makeup and quick hair changes.
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You can't do it the way Marco Rubio did, where you end up mired in absurd and self-defeating anatomical one-upmanship.
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And sure, trade wars usually only encourage one-upmanship, and tit-for-tat retaliation, creating losers on both sides of the border.
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The one-upmanship means that right now is possibly the most lucrative moment in history to be a professional catcher of bass.
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The N.B.A. can sometimes feel like an endless game of one-upmanship, but LeBron James took it to another level on Thursday.
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Describing the 1986 crime bill that resulted from a bipartisan frenzy of one-upmanship on lengthening sentences and building prisons, Democratic Rep.
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Maurizio Cattelan, the artist whose $120,000 duct tape-and-banana installation had just been devoured, essentially shrugged off Datuna's attempt at one-upmanship.
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Governments will inevitably be lobbied to use their expanded powers not just to preserve national security but also to promote economic one-upmanship.
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Most of these stunts were simple and silly, but one-upmanship eventually took over as daredevils planked in more outrageous and dangerous places.
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Sam and I are pretty competitive, so naturally I wanted to destroy him in this challenge for the pure thrill of one-upmanship.
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What followed was a series of one-upmanship culminating in Noall getting a tattoo of a Sensory Lab coffee cup on her side.
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"Rival" artists Banksy and and King Robbo have engaged in an epic battle of one-upmanship, marking over each other's work for decades.
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Qualcomm's big Snapdragon Summit has become yet another battleground for smartphone one-upmanship, as companies duke it out around the latest flagship chips.
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The news signals how, as Apple and hackers continue their one-upmanship, authorities are exploring more legal workarounds to encryption and locked phones.
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It is an approach that stresses participation over prowess, a generosity of spirit over a hoarding of resources and sportsmanship over one-upmanship.
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In the latest in bat mitzvah one-upmanship, Terez has also done special prints named after the honoree and featuring her favorite things.
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Today, our government is overwhelmingly setting an example of contempt for differences, name calling, one-upmanship and a politicization of each other's values.
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A barn-raising contest between the backwoodsmen and their gentlemen rivals, for example, turns into half-balletic, half-acrobatic display of one-upmanship.
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Naturally, instead of sharing the global market, they spent a lot of their time and resources on a never-ending battle of one-upmanship.
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Just over a week ago, both leaders voiced a high-stakes game of one-upmanship by noting the "nuclear buttons" on their respective desks.
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All in all, the portrait Manigault-Newman paints of the Trumps' marriage is full of petty insults and one-upmanship — but it's also somewhat contradictory.
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Occasionally, people get into a pattern of braggy one-upmanship, or they constantly try to prove that they have "notches in the bedpost," she says.
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There's almost a feeling of one upmanship, like each producer is flexing both for their friends and in the mirror, pushing themselves in new directions.
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Goldstein wrote the music), which range from propulsive pop to an acerbic tango to a humorous duet of immigrant one-upmanship ("We Had It Worse").
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With her mainstream star ascending, Franklin took the route of one-upmanship, covering "Say a Little Prayer," which Warwick had released just a year prior.
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"It was obnoxious," said the grandmother, who resented the one-upmanship but said nothing, and asked me to withhold her name to preserve family peace.
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The Demandware deal also involves a bit of one-upmanship, helping Mr. Benioff stick it to its long-time rival Oracle and its boss, Larry Ellison.
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The company has toyed with eliminating like counts in the past, the idea to get rid of the element of social media one-upmanship between users.
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The scare turned conservatives and liberals alike into happy red-hunters, as administrators and professors entered a contest of patriotic one-upmanship: loyalty oaths, hearings, purges.
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The ultimate in dinner-party one-upmanship, beef Wellington is one British favorite that made a significant impact on American entertaining throughout the 1960s and '70s.
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As it spun Brody's story into a second season, then killed him off in a third, it began to suffer from implausibility and plot one-upmanship.
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So Mr. Trump made a play for dominance and one-upmanship reminiscent of his personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, when he was mayor of New York.
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Images: Bevan Baas/UC DavisIn an impressive display of one-upmanship, UC Davis has created a monster of a chip, called "KiloCore," which houses 1,000 independent processors.
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In the video above, James Corden and Kevin James take on the role of the angry soccer dad and the level of one-upmanship is hilariously shocking.
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At a cost of $120m, the show is among the most expensive ever made in an industry engaged in an apparently limitless game of creative one-upmanship.
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The only way out of this crisis is through diplomacy -- clear-eyed, hard-nosed diplomacy grounded in strategy, that's not about one-off decisions or one-upmanship.
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So, I conducted a highly scientific and rigorous analysis of the responses, and I'm ready to call a clear winner in this social media game of one-upmanship.
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Holiday retail has always been a game of one-upmanship: which retailer has the lowest price, the earliest opening time, the best inventory and the fastest delivery option.
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The man who's supposed to be Seoul's dependable ally is playing a dangerous game of one-upmanship to the peril of everyone who lives on the Korean Peninsula.
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" He added that he thinks the best path forward is to reach a bipartisan agreement on how to pay for an infrastructure bill "so there's not one-upmanship.
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At the most critical moment in modern British history, its political parties -- and especially the one in power -- have chosen memefied promises and unsubstantiated one-upmanship over integrity.
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Chinese legal experts had said the division of antitrust oversight led to inter-agency competition and one-upmanship as each vied to implement the country's 2008 Anti-Monopoly Law.
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In a high-stakes negotiation game of one-on-one, tit-for-tat and one-upmanship, both Trump and Kim increased their rhetoric to the seemingly very outer limits.
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This one-upmanship between CVS and Walgreens has been beneficial to both stores' bottom lines, though it does help that the two chains make up 50% of the market.
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In Instagram's case the company's logic was that public like counts might be contributing to a kind of digital one-upmanship on social media and making users feel bad.
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It's only there that we see the usual social media game of moral one-upmanship in which each tribe competes to be more victimized, more offended and more woke.
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Because the twins claim they don't communicate with each other, it's impossible to know whether their brewery openings are coincidental, acts of one-upmanship or clever public-relations stunts.
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It consists mainly of debate: one-upmanship among the allegorical figures Earth, Air, Fire and Water as they await the dawn, with interventions from Time and the Dawn itself.
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One of the most provocative ideas the film floats is that the vocabulary of social justice has been co-opted for verbal one-upmanship just as competitive as battle rap.
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At home, it is stoking a frenzy of one-upmanship among provinces keen to catch Xi's eye and find new drivers for growth in their patch as the economy slows.
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It is, in large measure, an old dynamic playing out in new form as an economically declining Russia, a rising China and an uncertain United States resume their one-upmanship.
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In the rooms of 12-step meetings (at least AA and NA), there can be a weird one-upmanship, a pride even, among who had the lowest bottom, women included.
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SEOUL, South Korea — During the Cold War, the one-upmanship between North and South Korea was so intense that it extended to the height of the flagpoles at their border.
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The one-upmanship reflects an industry under threat from Silicon Valley, where deep-pocketed technology companies like Netflix and Amazon are stealing audiences, ad dollars and big name creative talents.
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Real Housewives of Atlanta castmates, Kenya Moore and Sheree Whitfield are waging a war of home renovation one-upmanship that has been at the center of the Bravo series of late.
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Unlike fractional ownership or own + share, these services will be less about investing in a car, brand or quietly competing in an automotive cold war of one-upmanship with your neighbor.
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And as the collection's curator, Yevgeniy Fiks, admits, propaganda like this—celebrating the fraternal love of Africans and Soviets—was often motivated by a desire for moral one-upmanship over America.
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Even looking at Keane's later years, the stage-managed rivalry with Arsenal's Patrick Vieira tends to be recalled through a lens of 'my dad could batter your dad' playground one-upmanship.
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He presents, without overt judgment, the macho, competitive, one-upmanship world of the collectors, an atmosphere that perhaps contributed to their gullibility in the high-rolling economy of the early 2000s.
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Even when the one-upmanship has flown under the radar, it has addressed issues that could be important to activists, labor unions and elected officials being courted by the two candidates.
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In a dressing room fueled by a friendly one-upmanship, the Kane-Panarin-Anisimov combination has, at times, been overshadowed by a top line of Schmaltz, Jonathan Toews and Richard Panik.
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Rappers are always talking about women "wearing their chain" (looking at you, Hov), but "Bootylicious" in a brilliant game of one upmanship, has the boys wearing the girls' name on their panties.
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But in the grand scheme of one-upmanship in the party conflicts that has paralyzed our government, to quote a famous congressional witness, "what difference does it make" to the political party.
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In his work, he illuminates a cold-but-human netherworld where kids run their own lives and revel in an orgy of one-upmanship, conquests, despair, and the grandeur of drug use.
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I began to notice that more than just excitement, the rush to tell me stories that I would then scribble into my little OfficeMax pocket notebook was a form of one-upmanship.
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And the other, in a classic case of one-upmanship, said he was going to make off with the vintage, 40-inch TV that was perched in a corner of the bar.
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Eating sumptuous meals without apparent relish, jogging separately through impossibly gorgeous towns, and firing off celebrity impersonations with wearying one-upmanship, they perform with the competitive reflexivity of the longtime double act.
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"Thus far in the primary we've seen really a race to the fringe — who could be the most progressive, almost a game of one-upmanship," said Colin Strother, a veteran Democratic strategist.
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That's because Game of Thrones has been steadily attempting to carve a new path forward, to "break the wheel" of violence and political one-upmanship that has characterized Westeros for far too long.
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This is thanks in part to the multiple hours of heart-stopping video uploaded daily to the internet, documenting not only death-defying feats but also perpetuating a dangerous game of one-upmanship.
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The ratcheting up of support from black leaders has at times had the feel of superficial one-upmanship, with each candidate trying to prove he or she is the most popular among black celebrities.
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"There is a volatility to it, a massive creative expectation and a lot of one-upmanship that happens, and from that a lot of spontaneity happens and we are good with that," he added.
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The battles for top engineers in the cloud industry are at a fever pitch: Tech titans including Amazon and Oracle are duking it out for talent, often accompanied by snide remarks and one-upmanship.
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Over the last couple decades, a mix of porn studio one-upmanship and a gradual increase in mainstream interest in hetero anal sex turned what was once a borderline fetish into a porno mainstay.
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A Nazi official in uniform criticizes modern art as a meaningless game of one-upmanship in which artists like Otto Dix, George Grosz, and Wassily Kandinsky propose faddish, often ugly truths about the world.
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The escalating cycle of one-upmanship risked leaving America's two most powerful political leaders looking juvenile and oblivious as 800,000 government workers lament empty wallets and airports set up food banks for security staff.
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In the cafeteria, he's drawn into a high-stakes competition for the last piece of candy, as patients vie to tell the most outlandish first-sex story, in a wave of bubbly one-upmanship.
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Stack them together and it can feel like the writers are engaged in a kind of deliberately provocative one-upmanship: What if all women were tortured for speaking more than 100 words per day?
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Even before Billie Eilish took home five Grammys on Sunday, she had already won the night, at least as far as the game of super-one-upmanship that is the red carpet was concerned.
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The competitive nature of today's most prolific platforms — Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon — has also generated the sort of perpetual one-upmanship that was previously more common amongst the biggest television networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC.
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The food on display was the kind of twisted excess that the CNE is now known for, the product of years of gastronomic one-upmanship, and so shock factor is nothing new for the fair.
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Weekly party caucuses are governed more as political action committees vying for short term partisan one-upmanship than as substantive policy huddles to discuss options for advancing a bipartisan legislative agenda for the public good.
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But as circumstances grew more dire, and much of New York was forced into shutdown, their approaches diverged -- and occasionally devolved into the one-upmanship that has long characterized their relationship outside times of crisis.
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His half-interested presence compels them into destructive, flirty one-upmanship, especially after a hurricane diverts their plane to St. Louis (not the best-timed plot point) and they run into Ryan at their hotel.
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What started as a bored Orange County father's silly way to pass time has become a social game of one-upmanship as dads compete to stack higher and higher towers of Cheerios on their sleeping children.
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This is the kind of self-loathing cool kid one-upmanship that Lethem can write with exquisite precision — a similar sequence was one of the most heartbreaking parts of Fortress of Solitude — and here, it sings.
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Today, it's not just Russia and the United States that would embark on dangerous game of one-upmanship, as China, India, Pakistan, and likely others would jump in to develop new and more sophisticated nuclear weapons.
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Apple's decision to stay out of the reward wars could be a smart move, since one-upmanship has proved expensive for other firms, said Chris Kuiper, an analyst at CFRA Research who covers credit card companies.
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Intel's engaging in yet another annual cycle of geek kabuki theater, a performance of one-upmanship that's as much about any single company's ability to build and sell the biggest, best, most futuristic processor on the market.
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But this year we're here to put an end to that generational Thanksgiving-dessert one-upmanship with some (potentially controversial) news: According to Pinterest, your grandma's recipe may have been knocked out of the running by Pinterest.
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That is because Cuomo has made it clear, through a relentless campaign of harassment and one-upmanship, that he does not want another power center in his backyard, particularly one with the potential to energize the left.
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Dean Spiliotes: Trump prevails on 'New York values' It took about 30 minutes for the moderators to stir up personal conflict in what started out as an orderly Republican affair of Obama/Clinton bashing and hawkish one-upmanship.
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The pace of such meetings to date has been problematic: periodic senior-level encounters lasting one or two days, followed by relatively long periods of diplomatic vacuum often filled with the escalation of proxy wars and one-upmanship.
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It's hard to see adding HEPA filters in the first place, but can adding a layer of one-upmanship on top of that with a Bioweapon Defense Mode button be seen as anything other than a spectacular PR stunt?
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Mr. Trump's decision to upend Ms. Pelosi's travel plans was a remarkable bit of one-upmanship in an increasingly bitter government shutdown drama in which Mr. Trump and Ms. Pelosi, the newly elected Democratic speaker, are the main antagonists.
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But for all the seamless blending between their component parts, there's always a sense that there's multiple voices fighting to the forefront of each piece, a playful sort of one-upmanship that drives their ascendant pieces toward the heavens.
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But Rachel McAdams has taken the evening gown one-upmanship to the next level, showing up to the red carpet in a dress that was not only made just last week, but hasn't even been shown on the designer's runway yet!
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Their sibling relationship is genuinely sweet, if not entirely believable (flashbacks indicate they're supposed to around the same age, which, lol), and her presence gives Hobbs some welcome opportunities to breathe in between bouts of one-upmanship with her brother.
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The new HBO series from McBride and Jody Hill, two of the three creators of Eastbound and Down, is a dark comedy of one-upmanship in which Gamby and Russell's antagonism is, admittedly, largely characterized by fantasies of sexual humiliation.
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A very public disinvitation, name-calling, and downgraded flights: These aren't the petty acts of scorned celebrity rivals or family drama, but the latest revenge tactics in President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's bitter game of political one-upmanship.
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After a few months I realised that I was on to something, stopped selling the larger brands and decided only to sell independent labels, which goes back to the idea of one-upmanship and selling things which aren't mass produced.
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When the mayor went to Albany that March to press for his dedicated tax, the governor held a competing rally that same day just blocks away, on behalf of charter schools — beginning a pattern of one-upmanship that has continued.
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" To Sanjiv Sidhu, a so-called software savant whose fortune was once estimated at over $6 billion, Ms. Magic's invitation-only salons are the perfect escape from a business culture where one-upmanship is "crowding out our need to connect.
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At some point in the past decade, music festivals have gone from countercultural communal gatherings to the corporate co-opting thereof—escapist popularity contests, complete with big-budget spectacle, cannibalized nostalgia, fashion lines at Forever 21, and feedback loops of one upmanship.
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To cheer on or turn a blind eye to such vandalism in the spirit of continental one-upmanship would be utterly short-sighted, doing diplomatic and economic damage that would far outlast the four- or eight-year span of Mr Trump's presidency.
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Part of this animosity seems to have stemmed from general ribbing and one-upmanship — it's worth noting that most of these artists have collaborated repeatedly over the years — and occasionally from disagreements over style similarities and perceived theft of lyrics and musical elements.
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A free visual novel built in Twine, The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo draws real dread from the weird mystique around game development, the subtle one-upmanship of childhood friendships, and the simple horror of waiting for a late-night knock on the door.
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At its worst, "the tyranny of forced fun" can make going into work seem like starring in an outtake from Mean Girls or Animal House; it can turn gestures of genuine goodwill, like sharing a meal or exchanging gifts, into crass displays of one-upmanship.
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People come to the data hoarding subreddit to learn about storage set ups, how to scrape data, or to float a new archival project, which can often seem like a never ending game of one upmanship in terms of the scope of the proposals.
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The night largely seemed to be a game of entrance-making one-upmanship, a raising of the stakes of sartorial absurdity higher and higher until the point of it got lost somewhere under a thousand acres of taffeta and a couple of severed heads.
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Whether or not the Congress party gains electorally from this Hindu one-upmanship, it is clear that Mr. Modi, much like Margaret Thatcher claiming "New Labour" as her greatest political success, can boast of Mr. Gandhi's not-so-secular Congress party as his lasting legacy.
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In the last few years, many of architecture's stars, including Renzo Piano, Rem Koolhaas, Toyo Ito and Tadao Ando, have been hired to design shops for luxury brands and have turned the city into a battleground for a rare, and spectacular, game of architectural one–upmanship.
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And the chemistry between these bros is palatable, from their shirtless tussle while trying to figure out what the new tattoos on their backs say to a one-upmanship showdown they have with Fabio that results in Jesse and Chester making out with each other. Sweet!
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This virtual one-upmanship has its physical perils: A Russian motoblogger died in a crash while reportedly driving his motorbike with his feet; a Chinese vlogger died while eating poisonous insects for his fans; a Spanish YouTuber died while filming a stunt jump from a chimney.
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Murray Polner, an unswerving voice for pacifism and civil liberties and the founder and only editor of Present Tense magazine, a progressive counterpoint to Commentary that began in a period of one-upmanship among Jewish intellectuals, died on May 30 in Manhasset, N.Y. He was 91.
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Think of the Music Nazis who make their way through the world with their one-upmanship, and your collection of Van Morrison and Jimi Hendrix is so uncool compared with the Mud Stumps and Echo Park, but only before they caved and became famous and were no longer cool.
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After the war, during the period of American-led "denazification," paranoia on both sides of the family had increased to the point where the brothers and their wives performed a kind of morbid one-upmanship, each trying to make the other seem like a bigger Nazi than he actually was.
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I miss that, even when I see glimpses of it: I see music fans and music writers in person, and we argue passionately about the latest noise filling our ears for several minutes in a bout of absurdist one-upmanship, and then we laugh it off and go our separate ways.
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There is something genuinely sad about the "love it or leave it" crowd, who are seemingly incapable of doing an independent analysis of what is happening in their country, but who are so desperate to seem worthy of praise that they engage in a symbolic one-upmanship of nationalistic fervor.
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As the nameless man (Anaam Aadmi, as Khan's character identifies himself on social media) and his prisoner make their way through towns, politics plays out in the corridors of power, with the home minister (Tushar Dalvi) and his party president (Uday Tikekar) engaged in their own game of one-upmanship.
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"Bernie is falling behind Warren and needs to try to be relevant again following her missive on taxing free speech and lobbying; this is simply a game of one-upmanship from a desperate campaign that doesn't have the ability to draft a 27-page thesis like Warren," a Democratic lobbyist said.
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Favreau captures both those moments when espionage seems like futile, even juvenile one-upmanship (a surprising number of intel coups have been ruined by moles) — and also those few moments when the fates of two nations, and perhaps the world, were changed by the right word scratched in chalk in a park.
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Whether fictional or real, the Ancient Athenian supper that Plato recounts in his "Symposium" has all the familiar outlines of our own modern gatherings: drunkenness, attempts at moderation, cures for hiccups, a "no shoes" policy, surprise drop-in guests, flirtations — not to mention some gentle ribbing, one-upmanship and a long, heated discussion of love.
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Related: North Korea May Be Giving a Space Program Another Try "It was clear the main aim of the proposed detonation was a PR exercise and a show of one-upmanship," said Dr. Leonard Reiffel, the physicist who directed the project and later detailed it in an interview with Britain's The Observer in 2000.
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Chicago's brigade of four starting pitchers with sub-3.0 ERAs still has to sort out who will end up having the best year, and the hitters at the heart of the Cubs' order, Kris Byrant and Anthony Rizzo, are continuing a season-long game of one-upmanship that could very well decide the National League MVP race.
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Picasso and Matisse's creative one-upmanship resulted in some of Modernism's great stylistic breakthroughs — it is unlikely Picasso would have painted his landmark "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," or found his way to Cubism, without the older artist's influence — and prompted a trade in 19453, a time at which both artists were exploring new modes of painting inspired to a great degree by African statuary and masks.
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The peril in this approach has been crystallized over the last 72 hours as Trump has, among other things, questioned the methods and credibility of his own Justice Department, played a game of nuclear one-upmanship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un (via Twitter no less!), announced his plan to deliver "awards" for the worst of the worst in the media and broken -- in fiery fashion -- with former top adviser Steve Bannon.
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The tradition of giving former Speakers of the House an office and staff is coming to an end following a quiet bout of one-upmanship between Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) and Minority Leader Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiWhy President Trump needs to speak out on Hong Kong Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Pelosi warns Mnuchin to stop 'illegal' .
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