relative
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And beauty is relative, especially when it comes to borrowing.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
In other words, black holes separated by enormous differences in mass appear to activate delayed jets at essentially the same relative feeding rate.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
“A strong customer base, established record of execution, backlog conversion and leading infrastructure performance is all supportive of their issuer profile relative to neocloud peers, in our view,” the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"Our results show that by 2020, nearly half of coral species were at elevated relative risk of extinction" with climate change the main driver of this decline, wrote Obura and dozens of top scientists.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
It was only in the second half of the seventeenth century that he was rescued from relative obscurity and hailed as the prophet of a new age.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Now, prosecutors visited his relatives in Omsk and called on residents of housing blocks where his family had lived.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
But evidence from earlier hunter-gatherers and still older human relatives has since shown that individual killings pre-date farming by a very long way.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Quen was identified in July thanks to a scrap of paper bearing his name that was found with his remains, and DNA samples that matched his relatives.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Seven in 10 parents who live near loved ones identify as members of the sandwich generation — those who are simultaneously supporting young children and aging relatives.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
Since no visiting was permitted in the hospital, relatives of patients often took this way of getting inside.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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