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relatively

[rel-uh-tiv-lee] / ˈrɛl ə tɪv li /


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According to Dr Kasonde Mwinga, the World Health Organization's Uganda chief, the relatively low number of casualties was not "by luck or chance".

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

Meanwhile, the performance of a relatively small group of Big Tech stocks with massive market values — and outsize weightings in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 — has hardly been uniform.

From MarketWatch Aug. 1, 2026

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned on Thursday that Greece -- which had been relatively spared from heat waves and major fires earlier this summer, unlike France and Spain -- was headed for "difficult days".

From Barron's Aug. 1, 2026

Most planned to increase outlays on cloud computing, while relatively few plan to spend more on their own computing equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

In the early colonial period, when settlements remained relatively small, indentured servitude was the dominant means of securing cheap labor.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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