comparability

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The company’s operating profit excluding items affecting comparability came in at 5.9 billion Swedish kronor, way ahead of company-compiled consensus expectations of 1.6 billion kronor, Bernstein says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

"Moreover, the variations in reference sleep duration underline the need for standardized definition in sleep research to enhance the comparability and generalizability of findings across diverse studies."

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

“We support the NewClimate Institute’s concern to achieve the greatest possible transparency and comparability in the climate goals of large companies,” it said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2023

The CDC decided to retain the existing percentile system to maintain a point of reference for historical measures of BMI and for research comparability purposes.

From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2023

Antecedently to the act of comparison the formally relative element of the relation, its “esse ad,” was not anything actual; it was the mere comparability of the extremes in virtue of the foundation.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter