comparable

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Shaykevich describes the local-currency debt as unusually attractive right now, with roughly double the returns of a comparable U.S. bond index for about 25% more volatility, based on Vanguard analysis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Multi-target missions were completed in just 12 to 23 minutes, while a comparable human-guided mission took 41 minutes.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

Of course, measles and a cold are not remotely comparable, which is precisely the issue with serious diseases that were once eradicated becoming endemic.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

Few activists in the financial world have had comparable impact as the investor and activist David Webb—and fewer still have done so with such independence and analytical rigor.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

The comparable disparity for whites in the United States is 8 percent.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander