relative to
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Planned capital spending this year is larger relative to its market value or revenue compared with Google’s parent, Alphabet, Microsoft or Amazon.com.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
The company has struggled to diversify revenue beyond ad sales, and it is far from clear that its subscription options will appeal to users or be attractive relative to AI offerings from competitors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Figure 2 shows how a worker’s claiming age affects their benefit relative to the amount available at the full retirement age of 67.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
Brazil’s output in the first four months of the year, for example, rose by 800,000 barrels a day relative to a year before.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
After Aunt Seah got too old to keep me, I was shuffled from one relative to another—some of them pretty far down on the shirttail.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
