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What is an one-upmanship?

What is an one-upmanship? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) The art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor.
  2. (idiomatic) A succession of instances of outdoing a competitor.
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In an age of parental one-upmanship, when each party has to be bigger and better than the last, arranged parties are becoming the done thing.
She's the one woman who can beat him at his own game of sexual one-upmanship.
While Stammberger's creativity was fabulous, mixed with his aesthetic and playful spirit was no small amount of self promotion and one-upmanship.
The current frenzy seems more like political one-upmanship among governments than sound policy.
It is about selling television rights, team sponsorship and looking for one-upmanship in contracts.
In the end, the nation suffers on the scaffold of political games and one-upmanship.

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