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compare

[kuhm-pair] / kəmˈpɛər /




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His many despisers dub him “the One-Percent Vigilante” and compare him to Bernie Goetz.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Fire Department spokesperson Andrew Dowd said monitoring had been “deployed to establish a background air quality, so that if the fire advances further into that sensitive area we would have a baseline to compare against.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

That crisis, which many compare to the current one, prompted thousands of Cubans to attempt to leave the island to reunite with family members in the US.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

Here are the S&P 500’s sectors listed alphabetically, with forward P/E along with revenue and EPS growth projections, so you can see how the numbers compare with those for the 15 stocks:

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

They would sit around our big wood table after a fancy dinner and compare sensations in the same way we cadets compared the blisters on our hands after a particularly grueling training session.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin




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