compare
Example Sentences
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But if you compare birds and primates generally, birds hold their own.
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
His many despisers dub him “the One-Percent Vigilante” and compare him to Bernie Goetz.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Turning to technology to defeat virtual scams, Cherry Dating uses software matching to compare a selfie alongside a driving licence or passport to verify that each of its members are authentic.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
I compare my freckled brown skin to the boy, Zeta-3’s.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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Vocabulary lists containing compare
The Language of Standardized Tests, List 1
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Academic Vocabulary: Core Tier 2 Words, List 1
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