comparability

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To ensure comparability with the UK, European countries with populations under one million are excluded from per-capita comparisons of net migration and asylum applications.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

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

The challenge was to balance the enhanced measurement capabilities of newer sensors with the need for consistency and comparability across time, he noted.

From Science Daily • Feb. 6, 2024

China has said that its agreement with Zambia is not a blueprint, but the metrics to assess comparability and how to enforce it would create some precedent, the sources said.

From Reuters • Oct. 12, 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