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They examined changes in gene activity and studied untreated mice to compare the rates of spontaneous tumor formation among the four strains.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
But valuations are hard to compare; ADRs are literally receipts for the stocks listed elsewhere, offering a direct comparison.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Scientists compare these patterns with models of the solar atmosphere to calculate how much of an element is present.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
"How can you compare those men to me? I've fought legends in the game and beat them for the titles. They're in their own little group and I'm on top of the Empire State Building."
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
No other festival in Greece could compare with it.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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This compares to the 550,000 figure of SK Hynix, the 650,000-700,000 achieved by Samsung Electronics and Micron’s 385,000.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
That compares with net income of $119.9 million, or 85 cents a share, in last year’s comparable period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
In recent years, the test score rise has been incremental, but compares well with other school systems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
This compares with just 3% in France, which generated the majority of its electricity - 69% - from nuclear power.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
As the chief historian for the Navy Medical Department noted, “If it compares favorably, then that’s the end of the controversy. If it doesn’t match, you change American history.”
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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The U.K. drugmaker said total revenue for the quarter came to $15.38 billion compared with $14.46 billion for the same period last year, with a 5% increase when adjusted for currency changes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
They compared those reports with data gathered in later months and years by the IMT School team.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Profit after tax climbed more than two percent to $2.5 billion in the three months to the end of June, compared with the same period last year, AstraZeneca said in a results statement.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Tallow consists of a much higher amount of saturated fat compared to our own sebum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 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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The bot’s report shows a table comparing its assumptions for those four value drivers for SpaceX against the market’s assumptions, letting investors decide for themselves which numbers look reasonable.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
However, there has been limited research directly comparing the risk among GLP-1 users with the risk among patients taking other diabetes treatments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
How much weight a drug helps patients lose is a key determinant of market success and studies comparing the weight-loss effects of one drug compared with a rival one are hotly watched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
To call his latest film a contemporary masterwork would be true, but there’s also no quantifying the magic McElwee conjures here, no comparing it to anything else.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
I walked back to the kitchen, comparing the clean, balanced equation to the mayhem of unfinished computations and dizzying sketches.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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