relative to
Example Sentences
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What the court must mean, then, is that some crimes are sufficiently serious, but that only makes sense relative to the punishment imposed—a fact irrelevant to the court’s per se designation.
From Slate
“There’s been a leadership change, specifically within technology, that companies around the ecosphere of OpenAI have started to pull back relative to the ecosphere around Google, and time will tell whether or not that shift has staying power,” Matt Stucky, chief portfolio manager for equities at Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch
These currencies were all strongly bought relative to peers in December with gains reflecting idiosyncratic factors rather than a shared narrative, he says.
One member also said that raising the policy interest rate in a timely manner could curb future inflationary pressure as the yen’s recent depreciation partly reflected a policy rate that is too low relative to the inflation rate.
Silver bulls said the current gold-to-silver price ratio of about 60 could shrink significantly—meaning silver prices rise relative to gold prices—before it approaches the roughly 30 reached during silver’s 2011 price spike.
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