relative

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Usually it was your management record, and your relative success with the respective budgets you'd been given, that would seal the deal.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Children also have higher respiratory rates than adults, as well as larger lung surface area relative to their body size, resulting in higher doses of pollution per breath.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The real-estate firm uses criteria that includes how quickly homes sell, share of homes that sold above the list price and job growth relative to new supply.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

“We see further aero outperformance on strong relative earnings per share growth that more than offsets potential valuation downside,” he wrote.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

The task, in other words, is to understand how reliable knowledge and scientific progress can and do result from a flawed, profoundly contingent, culturally relative, all-too-human process.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton