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Researchers believe it is the first study to compare depression symptoms in the same participants before and after they moved from their usual ultra-processed diet to healthier foods.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
“When I looked at reclassified students from one district to another, I couldn’t compare apples to apples,” said Manuel Buenrostro, policy director at Californians Together, an advocacy group that co-sponsored the bill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
As consumers compare prices and look for deals, manufacturers may have less room to raise prices without losing sales.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
"I know it's not a title fight but it's two former heavyweight champions. It's a fair price when you compare it to other major sporting events such as the football World Cup," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Breaking a song into “chunks” helps exercise children’s cognitive and analytical abilities to understand, compare, and contrast the different parts or phrases of a song.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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That compares with the roughly 7.5% rate on new 30-year fixed mortgages, according to Mortgage News Daily.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
That compares to a $6.2m pre-tax profit in the previous year.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
“You can build a 6% or 7% high-quality portfolio,” Ivascyn says, which compares favorably with a stock market trading at high valuations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
This compares with a previous estimate of 42.5% for the period.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
That compares to about 15 percent in 1983.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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The pressure on France has investors obsessing over a level known as “the spread,” or the extra yield on French bonds compared with the bloc’s safest investment: the German bund.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Register.si spokesperson Klara Herman said 44,000 web addresses with the .si suffix had been registered in September, compared to less than 2,000 in August - an increase of more than 2,100%.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Sales in China, another key market, were likely down in the “high-teens range” last quarter compared to a year earlier, Delaney said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
In total, net tax revenue in the state budget would increase by 18 billion euros compared to this year to reach 375 billion euros.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
The books at Buschke’s were slapdashedly scattered, but the disarray was nothing compared to the confusion of Bókin.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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So an active corporate-bond fund would look a lot better by comparing itself to the Agg instead of to a corporate index.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
By comparing the new snout with museum specimens from Britain and Europe, it provided clear evidence that fossils originally thought to be Severnichthys were actually a combination of two separate species.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
To recreate the extinct antimicrobial peptide, Sil began by comparing lactoferrin gene sequences from living species such as humans and cows.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
With a vibrant social scene and plenty of recreation, it provides a realistic baseline for comparing the financial advantages of living and working abroad.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Pa said, “I never knew a woman could get so sick,” and Mrs. yelled at him, “Stop comparing me to Cecile!” and she took some things and left for a few days.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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