relative

Example Sentences

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My adult children received a legacy from a relative they loved, and the overall taxes will be lower.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Usually it was your management record, and your relative success with the respective budgets you'd been given, that would seal the deal.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

ABS uses tracking technology — 12 Hawk-Eye cameras — to determine the precise location of a pitch relative to a batter’s specific strike zone.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Still, the current time period is a relative anomaly.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

Everyone assumed that Pong must be some distant relative of the old man.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat