relative to
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Shares in Firmus should be expected to trade at a discount relative to those in CoreWeave, said Chris Savage, an analyst at Bell Potter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Scientists agree that warming above 1.5C relative to pre-industrial times poses grave risks, and nearly 200 nations committed a decade ago to try and keep global temperature rises to this safer threshold.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
As water, ice, and air move around the planet with the seasons, they redistribute enough weight to push the center of mass back and forth by fractions of an inch relative to Earth's geometric center.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
After arriving at the airport in Kenya's capital, he was transferred by a relative to a hospital in the city where he died, and was buried on Tuesday in line with health safety guidelines.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The observed pattern of behaviour of the planets is also linked, in the Copernican model, to their distances from the Sun relative to the distance of the Earth from the Sun.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
