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comparison

[kuhm-par-uh-suhn] / kəmˈpær ə sən /


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A midsize sedan, by comparison, is roughly 3,500 pounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

That is a company projection, and the announcement does not identify the competing systems behind the comparison.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

In comparison Rwanda, despite its economic boom, remains a low-income country with a GDP per capita barely exceeding $1,100.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Tebas later said he was drawing comparison with "those propaganda techniques" and "not with an ideology".

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

They climbed Hnitbjorg together, the giant going first, and Bolverkr, doll-sized in comparison, never falling behind.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

Without an agreed-upon standard measurement, industrywide accuracy comparisons are impossible.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

A man in Northern California is drawing comparisons to actor Antonio Banderas’ character “El Mariachi” by online commentators after Richmond police said they found him carrying a guitar case hiding a loaded rifle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Until recently, information about nail changes during GLP-1 treatment came primarily from individual reports of possible adverse reactions, rather than controlled comparisons.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

At this point the moral quandaries kick in, along with comparisons to Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low” and Spike Lee’s remake, “Highest 2 Lowest.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Long before he even suspected who Henry Fonda was, he found himself the subject of unflattering comparisons everywhere he went.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller


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